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PNW District Point Distribution

The Pacific Northwest District is interesting this year in that there are the same number of teams and events as last year (although it appears one team registered but did not compete this year). Given this, it seemed reasonable to me that the district point cut-off would be in about the same place as it was last year.

But! It wasn't. This year the last team to qualify on points had 64 points, where last year it was 58 points. This is a non-trivial number of points (and teams!) in the flat spot where the point structure matters most.

Anecdotally, it seemed like the robots were better this year. So, I initially assumed it was mostly a zero sum game... the best robots weren't so much better than the middle tier, and the middle tier ended up with some points that had been previously belonged to the elite.

Looking at the data, this doesn't appear to be the case. The top 25% of the distribution didn't change much (they got slightly better), and the bottom 25% didn't change much (they got a tad worse). However, the middle 50% improved significantly (5-6 points on average).

Overall, the district awarded 351 points more than it did last year, or about a 4% increase and they overwhelmingly went to the middle tier. Where did these points come from? Were there fewer third plays? Does the non W-L-T point structure for qualification rounds award more points than the old system?
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