[FRC Blog] Frank Answers Friday: Championship Slots

[Brian Maher]

Originally Posted by Nemo

Yeah, we should go deeper than finalist alliances to make sure all six of those champs slots get awarded to somebody at that regional. Personally, I'd be looking at semifinalist captains and first picks, with the alliance that got beat by the winners being higher on the pecking order. I like basing it off elimination rounds. But basing it off qualification seed would still be an improvement over losing those slots. It would also be possible to send another award winner, perhaps Engineering Excellence.

Are you familiar with the district point system? It's an excellent system for ranking based on the criteria you suggested:

• 2 points per qual win, 1 per tie
• 0-16 based on alliance selection
• 10 per round of playoffs won (0 for quarterfinalist, 10 for semifinalist, 20 for finalist, 30 for winner)
• 10 for Chairman's Award, 8 for Engineering Inspiration, 8 for Rookie All-Star, and 5 for all other judged awards

Earlier in the thread, I talked about how the distribution typically works out, after winner captain, winner first pick, finalist captain, finalist second pick:

Originally Posted by BMSOTM

From my experience in a district, I've noticed that there tends to be one or two captain/first pick semifinalists that outrank the second pick winner, and a few more semifinalists that outrank the second pick finalist.