2016 MAR Season

[AGPapa]

Well there goes week 5! With only event left before MAR Champs we should expect invites for teams with mathematical locks on a DCMP bid to go out early this week. (Last year it was Tuesday).

We (5895) had a blast at the Bridgewater-Raritan event! Congratulations to 1676, 5624 and 223 for winning! I also really liked team 25's robot, they took the already fantastic robot they had at Hatboro and added an amazing scaling mechanism.

Also congratulations to 225, 1640 and 1391 for winning Westtown. The Westtown roster looked very challenging, and I look forward to watching the webcast recording.

Finally, congratulations to 11 for winning the Chairman's Award in South Florida!

Originally Posted by alephzer0

Waitlist slots do not count against MAR. As to your second question, they will still count the slots against MAR. If those teams would get points slots, we simply don't lose any slots (i.e. the bar is still set at the 22nd ranked team) but if they rank below the bar will be raised (up to possibly the 19th ranked team in this case).

I believe this is correct, but the reverse-wildcards rules are fairly arcane so I'm not sure (there may be a difference between points slots and winning/awards).

I also think it comes down to FIRST Mid-Atlantic being given discretion to give points slots to any team they want, so they can skip over waitlist teams when giving out points slots. They can't do the same for awards.

EDIT: I'm actually not sure if FIRST Mid-Atlantic can skip over waitlist teams for points slots, I thought that is what happened in 2014, but I was mistaken. There was a very complicated chain of events in 2014 that Ryan summarizes here.