2015 Waitlist Spots

[Walter Deitzler]

3397 got off the wait-list, and are going to champs for the first time in 4 years.

See yall there

[KosmicKhaos]

even more posted, up to 537 now
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....2015&event=cmp

[mklinker]

4485 just got an invitation! Tomorrow will be an interesting day at school. Year three has been a banner year but this may break the bank. A tough decision........

[WeJohnFriedIt]

Team 1466 just received an invitation today. Barring intervention by our high school's administrators, we're headed to St. Louis for the first time since 2010!

[mcarobotics]

Our team (4595) just got a waitlist spot today. Never been to champs so we are very excited!
However, this has been a hard year for fundraising and we arent sure if we can raise the money to go. What's the minimum amount needed to go, and does anyone have any ideas as to how to get ourselves to St. Louis?

[Karthik]

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

My only question to that then is, do those slots hold true even through waitlist slots given out to teams within those regions? Or would waitlist slots reduce the number of reserved slots per region?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum got in off the wait list this afternoon.

[KCruz]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

I hadn't thought about that until now - there does seem to be a mathematical problem. The team list page from the FIRST Championship website (see link below) has the count at 536, but Karthik's right, it doesn't seem like that will work unless a significant number of teams somehow get qualifying spots at district championships that had already gotten on through the waitlist.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....2015&event=cmp

[Jay O'Donnell]

1058 got off the Waitlist today! Very excited to go back this year.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

My hunch is that there are a lot of teams who may not be able to go on such a short notice, but that's a dangerous game to play. My other hunch is that a lot of teams in the district system are also on the waitlist, taking spots away from the district championships.

[Link07]

Originally Posted by Anupam Goli

My hunch is that there are a lot of teams who may not be able to go on such a short notice, but that's a dangerous game to play. My other hunch is that a lot of teams in the district system are also on the waitlist, taking spots away from the district championships.

Waitlist spots don't count against a district's allocation.

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

Some of each districts allocation has already been assigned. For example, 2590, 1923, 2016, and 4575 from MAR are already qualified via other means. This means that only 21 new MAR teams will qualify this weekend.

That doesn't really seem to solve the issue though, just make it not as bad. There will still be over 600 teams qualified, especially with Indiana's new system of passing waitlist spots down.

[Link07]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

Some of each districts allocation has already been assigned. For example, 2590, 1923, 2016, and 4575 from MAR are already qualified via other means. This means that only 21 new MAR teams will qualify this weekend.

That doesn't really seem to solve the issue though, just make it not as bad. There will still be over 600 teams qualified, especially with Indiana's new system of passing waitlist spots down.

But, if 2590 or 1923 re-qualify at MAR, then their points slot goes to another new team

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by Link07

But, if 2590 or 1923 re-qualify at MAR, then their points slot goes to another new team

Yes, so only 25 teams will ever qualify from MAR. And four of those are already awarded. So only 21 new teams will qualify. If we're looking at how many new teams will sign up this weekend, we have to subtract those district teams already qualified.