World championship waitlist

Hello.

We have qualified for worlds but missed the deadline for registration. Base on the rule http://www.roboticseducation.org/documents/2014/09/vex-robotics-competition-high-school-wc-qualifying-criteria.pdf for regional competitions, a miss deadline qualified team has priority on the wait list. It makes sense since we students don’t have control over registration process therefore we can’t prevent our sponsor from missing the deadline, which is what we are encountering right now. So my question is does such rule also apply to the worlds?:confused: