A few teams in my area have not qualified for state, and have a good skills ranking.
I was wondering how the additional spots for state are given out.
Our coach stated that with a good skills score, the teams who didn’t qualify can receive an additional spot.
The deadline for qualifying for State was yesterday, March 9th, and notebooks are also due on the 10th. So, teams who didn’t qualify, are wait-list chances also gone?
If the deadline was yesterday, it’s probably too late.
I believe it is the same for all US State Championships to fill the remaining spots with teams from that states skills rankings of the non qualified teams.
With the deadline being yesterday, 3/9, I believe those invites from the skills list will go out today, 3/10.
I am not sure how notebook submission works, if those are also due today. I guess the coach will have to register and submit the notebook today as soon as they get the invite.
To my knowledge the wait list has no bearing on filling the open state spots.
For Indiana State, there will be 5 (wait, no, 9. They changed the number of teams) That means that the top 9 unqualified teams will qualify for state. Which teams are you talking about, I may be able to see if they will qualify.
Indiana has enough qualifiers to fill the 115 spots. So unless they raise the number of spots. I do not think anyone from the skills list will get an invite. Its possible not all of the teams qualified will register, as there are 2 that qualified much earlier in the season and still have not registered. But they also have until 3/21 to register.
Thank you all for your help! The cutoff for additional spots in Indiana was 200 in skills, so the team I wanted to know about unfortunately did not qualify.
If anyone here is in Indiana, see you at State!
Do you know why Indiana cut back on the number of spots this year ? It is incredibly frustrating to see so many with good skills rankings without state spots but I suppose that is the law of game.
What I do know, is that on robotevents.com Indiana’s capacity shows 111 not 115.
Officially, no I do not. Since they cut back across all 4 divisions my thought is because of a lack of space and the time it takes to run that many more matches.
I’ve heard rumors it was because it is thought this years game was too easy to get a high skills score in . But I’m not sure that is it.
I know what you mean it is defiantly a bummer for teams near the top that would be in if they took the same number of teams they did the last couple years. My daughters team is in the top 20 of unqualified teams. It also seems odd for Elementary IQ there are 300+ more teams then Middle school teams but they only there are only 7 more spots.
I think in future years spots available should be an equal percentage of the number of active teams and they should just be transparent and say we will only take teams to meet quota plus X more.
My daughter’s team is in the same boat and it has frustrated me beyond measures this year. I find it odd how the state of Indiana has probably if not the most elementary teams in the entire organization and with the amount of state spots we are only allowing barely 20% of the teams to state. I think I’m just salty about how it was handled this year and can only hope that make this right in the years come. I was told they work closely with the REC foundation in determining spots, and that they do this to maintain the prestige of the state championship. In my eyes it’s hard to view it that way when 36 out of top 100 kids in skills are being left out. Thanks for listening to my frustrations.
Earlier, MS IQ state only had 80 teams, which was a reasonable ratio. I’m surprised that the RSM didn’t increase ES as well.
Spots to worlds are determined by RECF. They capped every region by 18 this year. World spots are still 420, so there was growth in other regions that likely took away spots form other regions compared to last year.