MN State Tournament Selection Process

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Originally Posted by cadandcookies

If it's supposed to determine who the best team in Minnesota is (in terms of robot or overall program), it is currently not meeting that goal. For the robot, the structure means that if a team significantly improves their robot between their first and second tournaments (as in the case of two regional winners this year, 3042 and 2177), they can still not qualify, meaning that even if a team ends up with an excellent robot, they still might not be competing at the State Tournament.

I imagine eventually Minnesota will be in districts and perhaps we'll have a state tournament *before* championship that both serves as MSHL victor as well as selecting all the other winners that our 4 regionals generally provide. Given that they already use a formula based on the district model to score eligibility I suspect this is where they are heading.

In the mean time, I do think it could be fair to count a team's full score from their first regional, or 75% of their score from their second or 66% from their third. I'm going off memory, but iirc, 2177 wound up #5 captain (11? pts), had 16 qual pts and won 6 elims for 57. They got a judges award for +5 and I would guess they submitted chairman's for another 10. That would have given them a score around 72. 75% of that would be 54 points which would probably have qualified them (many teams would see higher totals, but I would expect 54 would still make the cut).

But eventually under a full district model, such teams would have a fair shot to qualify anyway, so this is likely a shorter-term issue.