Bad News for teams on Waiting List

[KarenH]

Originally Posted by EmilioM

Thanks guys. We have a robot which lost to an amazing - and eventual champion - alliance composed of 330 (Beach 'Bots: a godly ring scorer with ramps) and 254 (another amazing ring scorer) and 4 at in the semis at LA. And then lost to 330 (again), 696, and 835 in the finals at SD. We just wish that we had a chance to showcase our design which lifted 18 robots (28 including the bulk of our own) in 10 qualifying matches in SD...

The winners from 2 regionals would normally consist of 6 teams, but because 330 won twice, 5 teams qualified as winners. However, because at San Diego team 835's robot died, team 1216 got to substitute their robot. It turned out to be a good substitute, helped win the regional, and thus qualified to go to the Championship as well.

So, 3 teams at L.A. plus 3 teams at S.D., minus the duplicate team, plus the substitute team equals... 6 teams! But if any of these can't go because they can't raise the money (or whatever), then it would be less than 6 teams.

I'm sure FIRST can do the math, but forecasting number of attendees for any event is always a big headache. I don't envy the people at FIRST who handle the event planning.