IN District Championship

[Hallry]

Originally Posted by logank013

Already qualified to worlds: 45 (Legacy Team), 868 (Won a Regional)
Will qualify for worlds: 6012 (only team able to win Rookie All start at IN DCMPS)

Indiana World Champs Spots: (Current Total: 11. Original: 9)
3 Winners
1 Chairman's Award
1 Engineering Inspiration Award
1 Rookie All Star Award
Next 3 highest teams by district points
1 Legacy Team (45)
1 Regional Winner (868)
0 Wait List teams (so far. May add some in next few weeks.)

Originally Posted by logank013

I should have specified. Technically, there are still 9 spots for the Indiana District but there will be at least 11 teams in attendance because of 45 and 868 already qualified and registered outside of the IN District. Therefore, there will still be 11 IN teams no matter what.

I believe this is wrong. From Section 7.4.4 of the 2016 Admin Manual:

Districts will receive the percentage of available slots at the FIRST Championship, rounded up to the nearest whole slot, equal to the percentage of teams they have in their District compared to all of FIRST Robotics Competition in the current season. In calculating available slots at the FIRST Championship, pre-qualified teams will be excluded. For team counts, this calculation uses a ‘snapshot’ of teams, that have both registered and paid, taken on a specific day a few weeks after payment for the season is due.

These allocated slots are guaranteed to the Districts. These slots will be made up of qualifying award winners from the District Championship (Chairman’s Award, Engineering Award, and Rookie All Star winners), all teams on the Winning Alliance from the District Championship (including any Back-Up teams participating), any qualifying award winners among district teams who traveled to Regionals, plus the teams on the final District ranking list, as deep in the ranking list as the District needs to go to fill their allocation. If a District team earns a slot to the FIRST Championship within the season, but is not able to attend for whatever reason, the top ranked team who has not yet been offered a slot is given the opportunity, and so on, until all slots are filled. District teams earning FIRST Championship slots at Regionals do count as part of the District allocation. Even though a District team may earn their FIRST Championship slot at a Regional, they are still from the District and can be considered part of the District contingent to the FIRST Championship.

Emphasis mine.

Indiana gets 9 slots to World Champs, not counting Original and Sustaining Team 45. 3 of these 9 slots go to the DCMP Chairman's, Engineering Inspiration, and Rookie All-Star Award Winners, and 3 others go to the Winning Alliance of the DCMP (or 4, if there is a backup robot used). This would leave the remaining 3 slots for the next 3 highest ranked teams in the District. However, 1 of these slots has been taken by Team 868, who won the 2016 Queen City Regional, meaning that there are only 2 slots left for the highest ranked Indiana District teams (or just 1 if a backup robot is on the DCMP winning alliance). No matter what, Indiana will be sending 10 teams to World Champs, including Team 45, but excluding any waitlist slots. (if I interpret that correctly).