Texas UIL State Championship Qualification Information

[AllenGregoryIV]

Originally Posted by itsjustmrb

Mr. Blake,
I respect everything you do and have done to make 3481 such a respectable robotics program. It is very hard for me to answer your question without asking a question myself.
Do you think it is advantageous to have students from multiple non-uil, private (homeschoolers are considered private schools in Texas) schools on your team?
I do not know the answer to this since our district prohibits non district students from participating in our robotics program.

I'm not sure what you are getting at here. I think Micheal's goal is to make sure we are are being as inclusive as possible. Spectrum is in an interesting situation, say for instance we don't get one of those 10 invites. In theory I could remove all my St. Agnes Academy girls from the roster and then I would meet the definition of a UIL teams since only my boys who attend a UIL school would be "on the team". I could then add back the girls on to roster the day after the event. That clearly is a stupid thing to do (and I would never do it) but the rules don't seem to disallow it. It seems to me if anyone wants to be a "UIL school" they just remove everyone form the roster but the 3-4 students needed for drive team and make sure they are UIL students and everyone is good to go for that day. The current rules need to be far more detailed about what it means to be a student on a team, when that roster needs to exist, what non-roster students are allowed to do at an event, if they are going to hold up this ruling.