Wild Card Spot Reform?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

Definitely this. I'd like to remind everyone in the thread that the reason FIRST is moving to two Champs is because HQ wants to get more teams to a Champs experience. Specifically, they want every team to have a reasonable chance of getting to Champs every four years or so, whether through qualifying or waitlisting. You're not going to turn every avenue to Champs absolutely merit-based without first changing that mindset. Which first means you're going to have to convince a lot of people that Champs is only for truly worthy robots.

With going to two champs and adding 200 teams, where will those 200 teams come from? Are all 200 from waitlist? Will we have 7 spot regionals? Idk. We can still make the wildcard spots more competitive. I don't think any of us are trying to eliminate the wait list. That's is a really cool and good thing. What if they had 100 mandatory waitlist spots out of the 800 spots in 2017? I'm not sure if people would be for that but I'm curious to see where the other 200 teams will qualify in 2017.