2004 Championship Eligibility Criteria!!!

[Meredith Rice]

I'm also a bit confuzzled. So tier 1 teams who have not prequalified are now allowed to register for Atlanta? Does this mean there are open spots or just that a team can register in hopes for a spot to open in the future? When a team registers now, do they have to pay right away, and if not, when is the pay date?

[dez250]

when i said everyone, i mean that all the teirs are open for registeration since december 17th. On that date FIRST opened registeration for a lottery style selected amount of teams to nationals from teir 1. I know not everyone can register and if you remember, rookies were labled as a teir "0/rookie" level. I am not sure if they will be allowed to preregister for nationals?
~Mike

[Dave Campbell]

Not everyone is eligible yet. We are a tier 1 team, earned three awards, Leadership in Controls, Website and Animation,(last two are not FIRST judged awards) and are still not eligible. We even paid for our first event and then got a fantastic NASA grant leaving us with a hefty balance due back to us from FIRST. We would love one of those last 4 spots, but realistically, we are looking at qualifying the good way, winning one (or all) of the qualifiers at our regional.

[Meredith Rice]

Thanks to both Dave and Mike for your response. I was reading the thread where the FIRST Email Blast announced registration was open for those Tier 1 teams selected by lottery and found that it was open until the 24th. So I am wondering, what now that the 24th has past? Are there still those 4 slots open and if so who can register and when?

[sonicimpulse99]

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing. Are they going to open up those last 4 spots? If so, when?