[FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts

[Mr V]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

That's a very good point. Looking at the data, the bottom 10% of district teams only had 3 selected out of 22 (teams 193, 3539 and 3663). That's only 13.7%, meanwhile 16.7% of waitlist teams were selected for division playoff matches.

I'm pretty surprised about that, since all waitlist teams from district areas would have fewer district points than the points teams. Either regional waitlist teams are doing well enough to pull up the average or district points aren't doing that a good a job of sending the best teams.

Note just because a team accepted a waitlist position does not mean that they had less points than the teams that qualified on points. Two seasons ago there was a team in the PNW that received and accepted a wait list spot on the first day of DCMP. By the end of DCMP they did earn enough points to qualify but since they already had a spot their points spot was passed on to the next team.

The district points system is not designed to send the top performing robots to CMP, it is designed to send the teams that earn the most points. Yes robot performance is where the bulk of the points are earned but awards earn points and there are bonuses for rookie and 2nd year teams. At the cutoff point the range of points is often quite small and winning just one award can make a difference of earning a CMP spot or not.