I think the following changes should be made to the qualification system to help it scale to both the size of a district and the size of champs.
Districts:
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DCMP points need to be scaled based on size of district, right now tiny districts (i.e. Indiana) are basically just running the regional qualifying model
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District teams cannot qualify from regionals (ineligible for qualifying awards, spots from winning would be passed down to non-district teams wildcard style)
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There should be no auto quals from districts, awards (CA, EI, RAS) and winning DCMP should all result in an appropriate [1] number of points
Regionals:
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All regionals should switch to districts
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Barring that, all regionals should adopt a universal point model [2]
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Barring that, all regions should adopt what I’ll call a pseudo district:
- Region in this sense is a state/country if large enough, group of states/countries if not
- Consolidate qualifying awards and award the same number they would get as a district
- Semis teams should play a tiebreaking set, and wildcard slots would pass from the winning alliance all the way down through semis teams, if applicable
- If a region qualifies fewer than the number of teams they would send as a district, randomly select teams off the waitlist [3]
[1] I’ll leave this up to people more familiar with district points to debate
[2] Treat all regionals as a district, use points from the first 2 regionals (or double points if a team only attends one) to qualify
[3] Ideally qualifying awards and alliance 2nd picks would not auto qual, but instead would get appropriate points. This would be added to universal points and used to rank a priority waitlist, which would be used to fill out the number of teams from each region…but at this point I’ve invented a worse district model