Just curious, what is the most amount of wildcards heading to a single regional. Currently, Colorado 2018 has 8 teams(118,148,1011,1410,1619,2848,3005,3374)
South Florida beats that right now:
59 (Orlando Wild Card)
179 (Orlando Champions)
180 (Orlando Wild Card)
744 (Orlando Engineering Inspiration)
1902 (Orlando Chairmans)
2383 (Palmetto Champions)
3653 (Orlando Champions
5472 (Palmetto Champions)
7193 (Orlando Rookie All Star)
SoFlo is gonna be crazy! See you there!
I’m tracking this on my website, but the numbers won’t be up to date until the teams that qualified this weekend get officially registered over the next few days:
https://frc.divisions.co/qualification#slots
The number in parentheses after the regional name is the number of already qualified teams attending that regional.
1730 won EI in Heartland, meaning Colorado now has nine! I’m excited to see this regional in a few weeks!
Las Vegas currently has 6.
399 - Utah Winner
597 - HoF and San Diego Winner
842 - HoF and Arizona North Winner
987 - HoF
2485 - San Diego Chairman’s
2659 - San Diego Winner
Festival de robotique de Montreal has 6 also :
3990 Winners
359 HoF and Winner
6869 Winner
5528 Wild card (regional)
1772 Chairman Award
5443 Wild card (Because of HoF winner 359)
Can someone explain how having more than 3 wildcards at any event matters? The first three trickle down to the Captain, 1st pick & 2nd pick of the loosing, finals alliance. Doesn’t the buck stop there, regardless of the number of remaining wildcards?
You are correct that only three will end up trickling. In addition to just being a fun fact for a regional, an increased number of teams with wildcards allows a greater chance of a team on the finalist alliance advancing.
Can someone explain how having more than 3 wildcards at any event matters? The first three trickle down to the Captain, 1st pick & 2nd pick of the loosing, finals alliance. Doesn’t the buck stop there, regardless of the number of remaining wildcards?
Because you then have more chances for the teams that create those wildcards to be in the finals and actually generate the wildcards.
This thread isn’t really talking about wildcards, it’s talking about number of pre-qualified teams. If there are more pre-qualified teams, there’s a better chance of wildcards being generated.
No, it doesn’t necessarily stop there. In most cases, it will…
…But there’s the outside chance that a Finalist alliance has 4 teams due to backup teams being called up. And if there is one, that’s where the wildcards stop.
Also, for “possible wildcards at a single event”, all your counts need to increment by 1, due to the wild card the event has by being a regional. South Florida and Colorado have 1 wildcard and 9 possible wildcard generators.
Tech Valley is going to have a decent few:
20: original and sustaining
250: original and sustaining
2791: CNY Winners
3044: CNY EI
3990: Montreal winners