Frank Answers Fridays - Expanded Championship

[Steven Donow]

Here's my proposal for a system/way to change the wildcard system: 6 teams from every regional win-in at that regional (this is ignoring districts which would remain the same system).

This would allow any team that qualifies for Champs to generate a wildcard slot, including HoF teams. Even as a further expansion, if a team wins Chairmans at an event, let that create a wild card slot post-awards ceremony. Allow wildcard slots to pass down to a pecking order something like this:
1. Finalist captain
2. Finalist first pick
3. Semifinalist defeated by the winner captain
4. Semifinalist defeated by the winner first pick
5. Finalist second pick
6. Semifinalist defeated by finalist captain

And for geographic distribution, maybe even go as far as increasing this order so that if a team declines to go to championship, this generates a wildcard slot that gets passed down from teams at the regional they received their championship slot at. Obviously this order wouldn't go as far as allowing a team in dead last at an event to 'win' a slot (at some point the order above would end and that slot would become a waitlist spot) so that most teams at Champs would have some sort of merit being there.

Number of teams at Championships? 6*no. of events+District slots+"legacy" slots+X amount of waitlist teams to even out number of teams.

Does anyone have data/a post written up with data about wildcard slots this year (ie, who generated them, how many were generated, etc...).