2015 Waitlist Spots

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by Link07

This confusion stems from the fact that the blog post does not reflect the system that would be eventually be implemented in the 2015 Administrative Manual. According to Section 7.5 of the Administrative Manual:



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But there are plenty of teams with far more "entries" than the teams that participated at last year's championships yet these teams still get to go while others have to wait and see. It doesn't make much sense to me. Unless, these teams that attended last year have qualified in some other way that has not yet been reflected on this thread.

[Gregor]

Originally Posted by MrTechCenter

But there are plenty of teams with far more "entries" than the teams that participated at last year's championships yet these teams still get to go while others have to wait and see. It doesn't make much sense to me. Unless, these teams that attended last year have qualified in some other way that has not yet been reflected on this thread.

It's The Hunger Games and those lucky teams are Prim.

[alephzer0]

Originally Posted by Gregor

It's The Hunger Games and those lucky teams are Prim.

Can I volunteer as tribute?

[Team3844]

Have all of the wait list invites been sent?

[Jacob Paikoff]

Originally Posted by Team3844

Have all of the wait list invites been sent?

Most likely yes. As of right now there are 476 teams registered for Champs with only MSC, MAR Champs, and NE Champs next week. Those 3 events will qualify 128 teams putting the total at 604 teams.

There may be one or two spots that open up if teams can't pay but I wouldn't count on it.

[Mastonevich]

Originally Posted by Jacob Paikoff

Most likely yes. As of right now there are 476 teams registered for Champs with only MSC, MAR Champs, and NE Champs next week. Those 3 events will qualify 128 teams putting the total at 604 teams.

There may be one or two spots that open up if teams can't pay but I wouldn't count on it.

Couldn't some of those 128 spots could already have an invite from HOF, last years winners, teams getting tickets from regionals?

It does appear they are getting down toward the end. That seems reasonable as we are about 14 days out.

[MrTechCenter]

Originally Posted by Mastonevich

Couldn't some of those 128 spots could already have an invite from HOF, last years winners, teams getting tickets from regionals?

It does appear they are getting down toward the end. That seems reasonable as we are about 14 days out.

They did great with championship slot allocation this year, mostly because of the expansion. Previously, FIRST would be dishing-out waitlist invites mere days before Champs.

[Anthony Galea]

Originally Posted by Mastonevich

Couldn't some of those 128 spots could already have an invite from HOF, last years winners, teams getting tickets from regionals?

I do know that 216 got a wild card spot from WEGLR, which takes one of Michigan's spots away.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by Mastonevich

Couldn't some of those 128 spots could already have an invite from HOF, last years winners, teams getting tickets from regionals?

It does appear they are getting down toward the end. That seems reasonable as we are about 14 days out.

Yup. There are at few off the top of my head:

125 (SoFlo Chairman's)
195 (NYTV Winners)
1923 (NYTV EI)
4575 (Queen City Winners)
2590 (Montreal Winners)

Add in HoF/O&S teams that could get spots and there will probably be a few more slots opening up eventually.

[Link07]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

Yup. There are at few off the top of my head:

125 (SoFlo Chairman's)
195 (NYTV Winners)
1923 (NYTV EI)
4575 (Queen City Winners)
2590 (Montreal Winners)

Add in HoF/O&S teams that could get spots and there will probably be a few more slots opening up eventually.

2016 (South Florida EI) is the other one from MAR.

[Mastonevich]

I am going to choose to keep my fingers crossed in effort to get an invite then.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

Yup. There are at few off the top of my head:

125 (SoFlo Chairman's)
195 (NYTV Winners)
1923 (NYTV EI)
4575 (Queen City Winners)
2590 (Montreal Winners)

Add in HoF/O&S teams that could get spots and there will probably be a few more slots opening up eventually.

We (78) got in off the waitlist. Not sure how that effects New England spots.

[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by Ricksta

We (78) got in off the waitlist. Not sure how that effects New England spots.

I believe it gives New England another slot for a team to go to Champs. If your team doesn't qualify through district, you get the slot. If you do qualify through district, the next highest ranked district team gets the spot.

The same thing happened in Indiana, since teams 135 and 829 both got waitlist spots at Champs. We (135) qualified via district, so the next highest ranked team (1741) got the "waitlist" spot. 829 maintained their "waitlist" spot.

[Steven Donow]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

I believe it gives New England another slot for a team to go to Champs. If your team doesn't qualify through district, you get the slot. If you do qualify through district, the next highest ranked district team gets the spot.

It doesn't give a slot, it just doesn't take away a slot. And even if they win EI this weekend (which they're eligible for), it won't effect anything (other than them getting one of the two EI slots)

EDIT: Interesting. That does appear to be what happened.

[alephzer0]

Originally Posted by Steven Donow

It doesn't give a slot, it just doesn't take away a slot. And even if they win EI this weekend (which they're eligible for), it won't effect anything (other than them getting one of the two EI slots)

So if a team that qualifies off the wait list gets one of the point slots, that does not get passed on to the next-ranked team?