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Qualification Info - How To Qualify

In order to qualify to a world or state level competition, your team has to qualify by one of the ways below. A few pointers to help you team reach these goals are, make sure you are prepared for each competition, make sure you have a complete and working robot, bring your engineering journal, and have autonomous programs for skills and qualification matches.

State Qualifications

These awards qualify you for the state championship (all awards are at regional levels)
Excellence Award - Great overall performance in robot design, engineering notebook, judges meeting, skills, and qualifications
Design Award* - Best notebook and judges interview
Skills Champion* - Best combined driver skills and programming skills
Tournament Champion - Top alliance of 2 teams, against other teams
Tournament Finalist* - 2nd place alliance of 2 teams, against other teams

Other qualifiers
Skills ranking - If a team wins two or more awards that qualifies them for states, the judges will go down the skills list for your state/region and choose the top teams that have not yet qualified for states. (These teams are chosen after all regional competitions are over)

US Open Qualifications

You have to win one of these awards at a regional level in order to qualify for the US Open. Coaches are limited to a maximum of entering 4 teams from their school/club.
Excellence Award - Great overall performance in robot design, engineering notebook, judges meeting, skills, and qualifications
Design Award *- Best notebook and judges interview
Tournament Champion - Top alliance of 2 teams, against other teams
Skills Champion -  Best combined driver skills and programming skills

World Qualifications

These awards can qualify you for the world championship (all awards are at state level and some depend on the state)
Excellence Award - Great overall performance in robot design, engineering notebook, judges meeting, skills, and qualifications
Design Award - Best notebook and judges interview
Skills Champion - Best combined driver skills and programming skills
Tournament Champion - Top alliance of 2 teams, against other teams
Tournament Finalist - The team makes it to the tournament finals but looses to Tournament champion team
Tournament Semi-Finalist - The team makes it to the tournament semi finals
Amaze Award - Overall good team

​Other qualifiers
Skills ranking - If a team wins two or more awards that qualifies them for states, the judges will go down the skills list for the world and choose the top teams that have not yet qualified for states. (These teams are chosen after all regional competitions are over)
Online Challenges - Teams can submit entries to videos, websites, game 
designs, and many other challenges here each season. If your team wins 1st place in a challenge, they will qualify for worlds (excluding some challenges).

*Qualification depends on the size of the competition
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