Wild Card Spot Reform?

[logank013]

Hey guys. I was think about regionals and I started questioning the wild card system at regionals. A little background on me is I've never been to a regional or participated in a regional but I felt like the current wild card rules aren't the best. Honestly, playoff advancement doesn't define the best robots. Many good robots don't win. In the district system, we seem to honor those that don't do well in playoffs to an extent by doing a district point system that gives teams points based on qualification performance, alliance selection, playoff performance, and awards.

Why don't we do this for the regional system? Say there is a regional where there are 3 wild card spots (I'm assuming this is very rare). Is it reasonable for the 2nd pick on the finalist alliance to get that 3rd wild card spot when the third alliance captain that's been shooting 5 high goals all day doesn't qualify because they were knocked out in semis? (Just an example. I'm not basing this off of a real life situation)

Now using the current district point system wouldn't work perfectly for regionals but we could reform it. Obviously, the district point system tracks point throughout the whole season. This regional point system would be for only that regional. I'm suggesting we come up with a regional point system only for wild card spots. Not any other qualifying spot. So some regionals, it would be useless since there are no wild card spots. It would be most beneficial for later regionals.

So what are your thoughts? Any ideas to add onto this? Anything that you'd change? Has this been discussed before? I'm not sure and I'm eager to see responses. Thanks.