Championship Waitlist

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Originally Posted by MechEng83

Several of your numbers aren't quite correct.

I believe the target is 600 teams. There were 608 last year due to a number of circumstances. I don't know an official number, so FIRST could potentially do whatever they want.

Indiana has 9 spots, not 12.

The 420 number includes teams from districts that have already qualified, for example, 868 is already registered, but they're taking one of the 9 Indiana spots, so there is actually another waitlist spot opened up for that.

The calculation becomes much harder to know how many teams, and I'm pretty sure there hasn't been an official decree of "xxx number of teams, exactly" to allow for some wiggle room.

I doubt FIRST is not releasing waitlist spots to see if a "good team" qualifies on their own. They have provisions in districts to give the waitlist spot for an in-district qualifying team to the next-in-line team. I know this because we got 135's waitlist spot last year. There isn't a reason to wait to hand those out.

Oops. Sorry. I'm not sure why I put down IN having 12 spots. I've been fretting about the fact we only have 9 spots for the past few weeks. Haha. But still, there are 27 spots to give away at least right? So why aren't those being given away yet?