MAR Championship 2014

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Originally Posted by The Lucas

My speculation: this is essentially a Wild Card Spot. If you look at the FRC 2014 Season Wild Card Calculation Step 2 states repeatedly states qualified at a prior event "in 2014 only". So 11 would meet this criteria and 341 would not. The only difference for districts seems to be that the Wild Card is given as an extra points spot, not specifically the Finalist Alliance as in Step 4. In MAR's case, either calculation results in the same team: 484

The winners of the District Championship cannot consume both a winner slot and a points slot (i.e. 2590 does not consume a points slot despite having the the highest point total) For the purposes of this scenario, pre-qualifying is the same as having one of the 10 highest point slots. By winning, we are then skipped over in points, meaning the points slot we took is basically ignored and the number of remaining spots goes back to up 7.

I doubt it has any reason to do with a wildcard and the fact that 484 was both a finalist and the next highest in point ranking is coincidental. This type of scenario was not specified in the 2014 district ranking system, but I'm assuming that's what happened.