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Re: Frank Answers Fridays - Expanded Championship
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The fields at many regionals can be very weak and this could easily lead to a lower level of play at Champs...especially when you see a 5th or 6th seed win and their 3rd pick was chosen on the basis of, "this robot can drive". Do it for District Championships, maybe. But definitely not regionals or districts. |
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I think the most obvious thing to do would be to expand wild cards to be given / passed through any team that is currently registered for the Championship. For example, if 2791 made it to the finals of FLR this year, the wild card would be eaten by hall of fame team 341 instead of passed to the first pick. These edge cases can be accommodated with a larger Championship. |
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This season, we qualified for the Championship in three ways. We won TVR, FLR, but we also had pre-qualified and pre-registered as a legacy team along with the HoF teams. One way that comes to help give out more wildcards during Week 1 and earlier events (as the probability for receiving a wildcard slot increases with each week) would be to generate wildcards for HoF teams and legacy teams, as some others have mentioned. While this wouldn't have generated any extra wild cards for 2014 Week 1 events, it would have generated a few Week 2 and 3. However, I think that most of these issues will vanish as regionals give way to districts (whether or not the model makes sense for the area in question -- but that's a topic for another time) with proportional championship slots. |
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Re: Frank Answers Fridays - Expanded Championship
Proposal on Championship qualification, given an extra 200 slots to fill:
HOF and Legacy teams, previous year's champions, previous year's EI and RAS all prequalify. (30 teams) Districts get an expanded number based on percentage (as-is now, no need to tweak formula). Probably about 150-200 total teams. Each regional gets 6 teams in addition to prequalifiers. To do this, the Wild Card is tweaked as follows: --ANY prequalification, at any event by the winner of a qualifying award results in a WC slot becoming available. (Win the event and win RCA, one wild card team goes to CMP.) --WC slots are awarded first to the Finalist alliance by order of selection, then to Rookie Inspiration and Highest Rookie Seed. Any remainder after that become Wait List slots. Result is 300 teams attending, give or take a dozen. Wait list teams are given points during the season, based on finish, awards, and time since last Championship appearance (this last being something like 10 points+1 point/year>4 years). Roughly 100 teams get in via waitlist this way, decreasing as more districts take slots (but those slots also give more teams chances to go). |
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