Hey, I was trying to read through the manual and saw nothing on this. How are points earned at the Michigan State Championship to qualify for Worlds? I know that they are added to district points but not sure what quantity can be earned at States.
You get points the same way as in districts (seed, draft, elim wins, and awards) except the point values are tripled. They are then added to your district points and the top 58 robots left after awards (4 Chairman’s, 1 EI, 1 Rookie All-Star) are invited to worlds.
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Oh, so it’s the exact same just x3. That makes sense!
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Having never participated in the Michigan Champs - are there any fun things like “Tiara Fridays”?
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I haven’t been a few years, but as far as I know, there aren’t any fun things like that, just 4 fields of the best robots in Michigan.
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The drive team of 4967 has made it a thing to wear tiaras, so even if no one else is, you can come hang with us and our tiaras 
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Will definitely stop by! Congrats on the Chairman’s win BTW!
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What is the cut off for points looking like this year? After week one my prediction was at 65 points but now I’m thinking 61 or 62. What are any of your thoughts?
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Looking to be around 61, but wouldn’t be surprised to see it drop to 58 with declines.
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low 60s maybe a 58-59. A lot of teams in for a third events this week, but UP, Jackson and TC are stacked with second events for teams this week.
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An equally interesting question for FUN InFIMidation will be, how many District points will be needed to qualify for Houston?
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Or will we see a 200pt match at FIM champs.
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Yes that will happen, in a qual match, IF the right combination of teams get in the same division.
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Unpenalized? I doubt it, honestly. 183 is the current unpenalized high score - while FiM is great and MSC will be awesome, I really don’t think you’re going to find 3 top teams that will 1) end up in the same division 2) end up in the same quals match 3) score for long enough that they’re willing to risk the climb RP to try to break 200 and 4) score 17 more points than the alliance at ISR DCMP.
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You could see it get close to that if we get 2 of the 4 top teams in Michigan in a division together. A good 3rd robot could play opposite side of field from deep to put in a few. Ball starvation would be big and you can’t have much defense clogging the ways. Also no low goal robot’s stealing ball cycles. We did a 150 Finals 3 of Troy with 27.
-Ronnie
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The total number of teams in Michigan and at MSC this year is most similar to 2017. So I figure the number will be nearly 175 total points, but that may go down depending on how many teams are ready to drop the $5000 for registration at the moment of notification of qualifying.
I am interested in others’ thoughts on this, too!
I think 182 is just about on the limit of being achievable at msc before teams seriously start playing defense but I don’t see much higher than that. 200 would be an incredible achievement.
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laughs at the shear stupidity of MSC and the crazy randomness that can easily lead to 3 top tier bots playing against no defense
If a set of top teams are together in a division, in a qual match, then the RP is a wash, go for the 200pts.
Selfishly I am wanting a 27, 67, and 2767 qual match for the novelty of it, but I do not want to deal with those playoffs…
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Team 5090 (or at least a couple other mentors and I) would love to join you for tiara Friday! 
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I’ll drop whatever I’m doing to watch that qual match.
But you’re right, a division with those three teams will have interesting playoffs also. And there are several other division combinations that would lead to interesting playoffs.
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