About 1 or 2 months ago I looked on the the Vex website and it showed all of the different ways a team can qualify for the world championships. Now if I look in the same spot the page is not there, it says “VEX Qualification: Qualification information for the 2011-2012 VEX Robotics Competition will be posted soon.” does this mean that they are changing the qualification specifications for worlds? or what?
From what I got from the forums and talking to Mr. Jason Morrella this is basically the new qualification methods that are based of tournament size:
"Level 1 Tournament with 16 – 23 teams will qualify 1 team:
Excellence Award winner (1 team)
Tournament Winners qualify for National Championships (such as US)
Level 2 Tournament with 24 - 35 teams will qualify up to 4 teams:
Tournament Champions on the winning alliance (3 teams)
Excellence Award winner (1 team)
Level 3 Tournament with 36-59 teams will qualify up to 5 teams:
Tournament Champions on the winning alliance (3 teams)
Excellence Award winner (1 team)
Design Award winner (1 team)
Level 4 Tournament with 60 or more teams will qualify up to 6 teams:
Tournament Champions on the winning alliance (3 teams)
Excellence Award winners (2 teams), if 10 or more middle school teams participate at event
Design Award winner (1 team)
Level 5 State/Regional/National Championships (100+ teams) up to 11 teams:
Tournament Champions on the winning alliance (3 teams)
Tournament Finalists on the runner-up alliance (3 teams)
Excellence Award winners (2 teams), if 10 or more middle school teams participate at event
Design Award winner (1 team)
Skills Challenge 1st Place teams (2 teams)
Skills Challenge World Championship Qualifying Spots
Skills rankings for all event levels will be included in the VRC global rankings (used for qualifying spots to the World Championship and National Championships such as the US Championship)
As of March 4, 2012 the top 30 team scores in both the Programming Skills and Robot Skills Challenges will earn a qualifying spot to the 2012 VRC World Championship"
Taken from https://vexforum.com/showthread.php?t=39517
Not all tournaments will be qualifiers. Robot events will indicate what tournaments will be able to qualify teams. This is done to control the number of tournaments that can take place in one state or country.
Each state, as well as countries, has a set number of participants that can attend from that area. These numbers are based off the 2011 World Championships.