[FRC Blog] Championship Housing Open and District Slots to FIRST Championship

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Posted on the FRC Blog, 12/13/18: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc/blog/2019-championship-housing-open-and-district-slots-to-FIRST-championship

**Championship Housing Open and District Slots to FIRST Championship

Written by Frank Merrick, 2018 DEC 13.

Championship Housing Open​

Thinking of (or hoping to) attend *FIRST *Championship this coming season? Book your hotel rooms now! When you book through *FIRST *you’ll get good rates at quality hotels, and many of the hotels come with FIRST-contracted bennies like free breakfast. Plus, you are sure to make new friends among the other teams staying at the same hotel.

You can only book rooms at your home *FIRST *Championship location. If you don’t know what your home *FIRST *Championship location is, you can find it on using this page. Type your team number in the search box at the top and click ‘Jump.’ This will take you to your team information page, which includes your home Championship.

Go here to book hotels for *FIRST *Championship Houston and here to book housing for *FIRST *Championship Detroit

**District Slots to FIRST Championship

https://www.firstinspires.org/sites/default/files/uploadedImages/Robotics_Programs/FRC/dcmpcalcs.jpg

It’s Just Like This!

OK! We took our snapshot of secured (paid) *FIRST *Robotics Competition teams last Friday, ran the numbers through our difference engine, and have identified how many *FIRST *Championship slots will be awarded to each District. The rules for awarding slots is unchanged from the 2018 season. Quoting the 2018 Competition Manual (take a deep breath):

“Districts receive the percentage of ‘available slots’ at their assigned *FIRST *Championship location, rounded up to the nearest whole slot, equal to the percentage of teams they have in their District compared to the total of all *FIRST *Robotics Competition teams in the current season who would normally be assigned to their *FIRST *Championship location. ‘Available slots’ are calculated by taking the total number of slots at each *FIRST *Championship location, subtracting the number of pre-qualified teams assigned to that location, and also subtracting a 10% allowance for waitlisted teams, as Districts are still allowed to send waitlisted teams to the *FIRST *Championship.”

These are the results:

https://i.imgur.com/LzzFCeJ.jpg

Frank

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Here’s a comparison of the allocated spots between 2018 and 2019

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It appears that due to Israel moving to Detroit, every district going to north Champs will get less spots.

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This was some interesting data I came up with to extend what Karthik posted.
All of this data is from TBA, and # of teams is defined as the number of teams that are registered for at least 1 event in that year.

I understand that there will be more teams added to this count from several districts (I know FIM is slated to have over 543 teams)

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PCH is showing 84 teams this year; just as a heads up.