[FRC Blog] 2017 FIRST Championships Allocations for Districts

[AGPapa]

Originally Posted by Monochron

Are you asking if I know FIRST's motivations about this? I don't. Maybe you didn't mean it this way, but it sounds like you are asking me to justify FIRST's decisions without even knowing if I agree with them

If I had to guess at their motivation I would say that it is because they want a broad variety of people to attend CMP. FIRST's first Strategic Pillar is:

So they prohibit some teams who would otherwise qualify, and they allow a rotation of teams who would not otherwise qualify. Again, this is just guesswork, but I am confident in the basics.

I didn't mean to put you on the spot or single you out specifically, I just don't understand the motivation for this decision and was wondering if somebody had a better idea.

I suppose using the lottery to send perennially bad teams makes some amount of sense.

It's odd that FIRST is pushing for areas to go to the district model so much when districts have the exact opposite philosophy on team advancement. There are no waitlist spots at District Championships.

Originally Posted by GKrotkov

Did 3637 get a waitlist spot or something?

This shows 3637 getting a wait list spot.

Originally Posted by Harrison.Smith

Just curious, how many teams are let in off the waitlist every year?

I'm pretty sure there were 59 waitlist teams last year, although that number is going to be a lot higher this year.