Oh, perhaps I have answered my own question.
When a team selects an additional regional event and/or the Championship, the team’s selection will be “pending” until a FIRST acceptable form of payment is received. Once FIRST Finance has received an acceptable payment for your team, we will move the team’s event status from “pending” to “registered”.
Please understand that once all event spots are filled, any of the remaining “pending” teams who have not yet paid will be moved onto a waitlist for that event (even if this should occur prior to the payment deadline of 1/26/07). Therefore, no pending spot is guaranteed until a FIRST acceptable form of payment is received.
So, I guess the pending teams were moved onto a waitlist.