FTC Email Blast//Championship Eligibility and Awards Criteria Information

[Karthik]

Originally Posted by ManicMechanic

I am only seeing 30 Championship events listed: 30 Inspire winners + 30 Alliance Captains = 60 spots taken. Suppose that 15 spots are reserved for International teams and that there are 100 spots total. That leaves 25 lottery spaces remaining for 30 first pick teams, which are decent odds, especially considering that a few of the originally invited 60 might decline.

This is assuming that there will still be 100 spots available at the Championship for FTC teams. Last year there were many complaints about the size of the FVC championship, and the small number (4) of qualification matches. There is a distinct possibility that the Championship event will be smaller in order to accommodate more qualification matches per team.

Until the total number of spots is announced for the Championship Event, there is no way of knowing what odds a first pick will have in the lottery. Teams should be careful not to plan their accept/decline strategies based upon this speculation. Hopefully FIRST will release the capacity of the Championships in advance of the initial qualifying tournaments.

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by Karthik

This is assuming that there will still be 100 spots available at the Championship for FTC teams. Last year there were many complaints about the size of the FVC championship, and the small number (4) of qualification matches. There is a distinct possibility that the Championship event will be smaller in order to accommodate more qualification matches per team.

Until the total number of spots is announced for the Championship Event, there is no way of knowing what odds a first pick will have in the lottery. Teams should be careful not to plan their accept/decline strategies based upon this speculation. Hopefully FIRST will release the capacity of the Championships in advance of the initial qualifying tournaments.

A good point. FLL has announced that there will be about 84 teams invited, down from about 100 in 2007. Not every State Tournament Champion will be invited to the World Festival.

[sovierr]

Originally Posted by Karthik

This is assuming that there will still be 100 spots available at the Championship for FTC teams. Last year there were many complaints about the size of the FVC championship, and the small number (4) of qualification matches. There is a distinct possibility that the Championship event will be smaller in order to accommodate more qualification matches per team.

Why can't they expand the number of days that FTC is played to accomodate more qualifying matches instead of limiting the number of teams?