2004 Championship Eligibility Criteria!!!

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Originally posted by Andrew
If you haven't already seen, the list of teams in the tiers are out...

http://www.usfirst.org/robotics/2004/tierlist.htm

As long as I am reading this right, then 163 teams are already qualified to go.

But, according to THIS PAGE at the bottom, there is 210 spots to fill.

Now take 210 and subtract 163 and you get 47 teams left that are not already prequalified.

Going by this years qualifiers and 26 regional events
"Regional Chairman's Award winners (1 per Regional) (26 total)
Regional Engineering Inspiration Award winners (1 per Regional) (26 total)
Regional Rookie All-Star Award winners (1 per Regional) (26 total)
Regional Champions (3 per Regional) " (78 total)

Then we have
163 (teams already qualified)
26 (Chairmans 2004)
26 (Engineering Inspiration Award winners 2004)
26 (Rookie all stars 2004)
+ 78 (Regional Champions 2004)
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319 teams going to the Championship Event this year.


(Why does it say that the limit is 210 then??)
And what is the real limit on teams attending the championships this year??

Remember, my calculations are taking into account that all winners of awards this year will be teams other than the ones that are pre qualified, and not other award winners that will qualify either!!

It's still going to be a big event no matter what!!!