Hi!
As you see in the subject line I’m inquiring about how many District points are needed to qualify for worlds. Obviously, this is regionally sensitive depending on the specific region. I am in the New England district and for teams how are hovering with around 95-105 district points coming into regionals I’m wondering which rank at regionals or total final district points would be needed to qualify for worlds.
I looked around for a thread projecting this but couldn’t find one.
Thanks!:] :]
Last year was around 121 for New England.
last years metric of calculating district ranking points is the same as this year correct?:] :]
Last year in Indiana it was 218, but that seems a little steep
This website has the record back to 2015 and the points associated with receiving an invitation to the World Championship from each district. Keep in mind some of the last teams invited to a World Championship may have been offered a slot as other team’s declined their invitation so they weren’t immediately qualified at the conclusion of the District Championship.
Other teams on the list will have qualified via HOF/Legacy status, slots earned outside of a district via a regional, EI/RAS/CA awarded at the District Championship, or via the waitlist.
Yes, but because of how events play out can adjust that number up and down each year.
The number of points it takes to move on to CMP from DCMP does vary from District to District. This year there is a twist in that more teams from a given district will move on due to the 2CMP and the larger number of total teams.
If you go to the official points site here http://frc-districtrankings.firstinspires.org/ There you can see the final rankings from previous seasons and at least get an idea of the points distribution. So for example if I look at the 2016 PNW results I find the 39th team had 120 points but also that there were teams that qualified with CA, EI or RAS that were below that level. Teams that won a lottery spot also show as Qualified so take that into account as well. Definitely not exact but it should get you in the ballpark. Note if there was a significant change in number of teams that could impact the final number as well.
If that is the case, how do we see how many spots each district is given?
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Oh yeah, I completely forgot to take into account that there will be two championships this year. This should mean that more teams are able to go to worlds despite being on the lower end of the top 60 in NE
That still all depends on your allocations. CHS ended up with about the same amount of slots as last year.
*fewer!
Our team calculated that we’d need ~200-210, and going into district champs we have 128 (district rank 1).
A quick guesstimate would say that you probably need about the same, maybe less.
So, you’ll need to rank decently and probably get onto an alliance if you want to qualify (if the amount you mentioned is where your team falls.)
Last year we were the last team to get a points based slot in IN with 199 total points. We have about the same number of points pre-district champs this year as last year so we are estimating that we will need to do about the same to still go to worlds.
To answer the thread’s title question:
None. Regionals don’t give district points. You win, pick up one of the qualifying awards, or pick up a wildcard.
Now, back to your regularly-scheduled discussion of how to qualify for Worlds (or DCMPs) by district points…
The terminology gets confusing: in districts, after the various “district” events are over, teams with enough qualifying points go to the district’s last “regional” event to complete for enough qualifying points to go to worlds. The last event in the NE District would be the NE “Regional” event. At least that’s how I think the confusing terminology works. If true, the title of the post is accurate.
The final event is called a District Championship and is in fact not a Regional event.
New England District Championship is the event name. It is the District Championship. Shorthand is DCMP (or, in this specific case, NE DCMP).
If you say “Regional” you get one of the other events–like, just to pick on NY because it’s close to New England: Finger Lakes, Tech Valley, Hudson Valley, NYC, or Long Island.
DCMPs run similar to a regional event for schedule purposes, but they are not regionals. If they were regionals anybody could register for them.
So the confusion comes from how many people routinely call it a regional rather than district championship event
In that table, it says Mid-Atlantic Robotics has 22 slots. Do those 22 slots include the chairmans, EI, etc. teams, or are those 22 slots for the 22 highest ranked MAR teams who don’t qualify via other means?