Selecting finalists at regionals

[Mike375]

Although I'm going to sound like those FIRST folk I often mock, I think it's anti-FIRST to place exclusive importance on the team rankings. For example, in last year's competition it would work against the highest ranked team to be forced to pair up with the eleventh ranked team, perhaps the two robots can only perform the same task. One of those pie in the sky missions FIRST puts out is getting several different entries to work together to achieve a common task, and alliances being formed by rank would go against that idea. Also, this would virtually destroy any possibility of a rookie team with limited success participating in the elimination rounds.

-Mike T 375