Below is the advancement order for each tournament as of 03/18/21.
The table represents the advancement order criteria as listed in section 6.2 of the FIRST Tech Challenge Game Manual Part 1 – Remote Events. Data is as reported from the Scoring System Software. Presence of your team in the list below is NOT an indication of your team’s status in terms of advancement to the NorCal Regional Championship, merely an indication of your team’s position in the advancement order for an individual qualifying tournament.
For the 2020 season, there are many uncertainties and we have not stabilized on a size for our regional championship tournament yet. Until we do, we will not know what percentage of teams from each qualifying tournament will advance. Advancement counts will be determined by applying a uniform percentage to each tournament, based on the number of teams that registered/competed at each qualifying tournament. Any fractions will be truncated.
Any regional championship slots not filled by the initial allocations will be filled via a tournament lottery.
We believe we will host a regional championship with at least 30-36 teams, but the final size will depend on the number of teams that register/compete this year. Typically, we strive to host approximately 30-35% of our teams at our regional championship.
We have settled on a size of 36 teams for our regional championship. This will advance 31% (36/116) of the competing teams to participate in the regional championship. To date, 116 teams have registered to participate in NorCal FTC Qualifying Tournaments, consuming a total of 195 competition spots. Based on this, the advancement rate per tournament is 18.5% (36/195).
Teams marked in bold in the table below will likely be advancing to the NorCal FTC Regional Championship (barring any human error in mapping the teams into this listing!). Teams marked with a strike through advanced a at prior tournament and are skipped in the final advancement analysis.
We will hold a lottery of the tournaments, with the next eligible team, based on the advancement order, from the tournaments drawn advancing to the NorCal FTC Regional Championship. (i.e. each tournament will get one token in the lottery. We will draw an ordered list of tournaments from the lottery pool and work from start to finish, filling the NorCal FTC Championship with the next eligible team from each tournament in turn).
In all cases, if a team declines to attend the NorCal Regional Championship, the next team down the list for that tournament will receive an invitation in place of the declining team. If all teams from a tournament decline (i.e. there are no more unadvanced teams from the event), we will move down the list of lottery draws offering the space to the next tournament.
The lottery draw for the 2020-2021 Ultimate Goal season resulted in the following draw order:
- Fremont #1 (FMT1)
- Fremont #2 (FMT2)
- Daly City (DALY)
- San Jose #1 (SJ1)
- Granite Bay (GB)
- Piedmont (PIE)
- Cupertino (CUP)
- San Mateo (SANM)
- Sacramento (SAC)
- Santa Clara (SC)
- Google (GOOG)
- Fremont #4 (FMT4)