2015 Waitlist Spots

[Link07]

Originally Posted by s1900ahon

2158 qualified for 2015 CMP by winning Engineering Inspiration on Archimedes at the 2014 CMP. They're not a waitlist team.

Fixed.

[NightTrain]

Originally Posted by lynca

If you were invited on the waitlist, what day did your team receive your waitlist invitation ?

3288 received its invite on Thursday March 26 while at Denver regional

[KosmicKhaos]

even more posted, up to 537 now
https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....2015&event=cmp

[mklinker]

4485 just got an invitation! Tomorrow will be an interesting day at school. Year three has been a banner year but this may break the bank. A tough decision........

[WeJohnFriedIt]

Team 1466 just received an invitation today. Barring intervention by our high school's administrators, we're headed to St. Louis for the first time since 2010!

[mcarobotics]

Our team (4595) just got a waitlist spot today. Never been to champs so we are very excited!
However, this has been a hard year for fundraising and we arent sure if we can raise the money to go. What's the minimum amount needed to go, and does anyone have any ideas as to how to get ourselves to St. Louis?

[Karthik]

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

[dodar]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

My only question to that then is, do those slots hold true even through waitlist slots given out to teams within those regions? Or would waitlist slots reduce the number of reserved slots per region?

[AllenGregoryIV]

Spectrum got in off the wait list this afternoon.

[KCruz]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

I hadn't thought about that until now - there does seem to be a mathematical problem. The team list page from the FIRST Championship website (see link below) has the count at 536, but Karthik's right, it doesn't seem like that will work unless a significant number of teams somehow get qualifying spots at district championships that had already gotten on through the waitlist.

https://my.usfirst.org/myarea/index....2015&event=cmp

[Jay O'Donnell]

1058 got off the Waitlist today! Very excited to go back this year.

[Anupam Goli]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Am I the only one who's really confused by the Championship registration numbers? There are 536 teams currently on the list with another 128 pending qualifying spots this weekend (25 MAR, 35 NE, 68 MI). That's twice as many pending spots as open spots. Does anyone have any idea what's happening here? Is Champs going to be even bigger than we all expected?

My hunch is that there are a lot of teams who may not be able to go on such a short notice, but that's a dangerous game to play. My other hunch is that a lot of teams in the district system are also on the waitlist, taking spots away from the district championships.

[Link07]

Originally Posted by Anupam Goli

My hunch is that there are a lot of teams who may not be able to go on such a short notice, but that's a dangerous game to play. My other hunch is that a lot of teams in the district system are also on the waitlist, taking spots away from the district championships.

Waitlist spots don't count against a district's allocation.

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by Anupam Goli

My hunch is that there are a lot of teams who may not be able to go on such a short notice, but that's a dangerous game to play. My other hunch is that a lot of teams in the district system are also on the waitlist, taking spots away from the district championships.

Yes it is true that some teams from districts might not be able to make it but I still believe New England sent our full contingent from last year and intends to do the same this year (as do other districts I'm sure). I would be very shocked if half of the district invites were not used as the current FRC registration is showing that is left. Again no hard numbers in front me since usfirst.org won't load but I'd be surprised if more than 5-10 district slots went un-used last year.

Either a mistake was made or the Championship got bigger.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by BrendanB

Either a mistake was made or the Championship got bigger.

83 team divisions?