Ep 065: 2025 Changes to Alliance Selection + Point Based Advancement (2025-02-02)

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(2025-02-02) An episode of the Sunday night FRC Roundtable for FIRST Robotics students and mentors. FIRST Robotics Emcee Yoji Shimizu leads a review of the 2025 changes from FIRST on FRC alliance selection and regional advancement points. Plus the reasoning from FIRST on why these changes were made. Some key changes include the pacing of alliance selection including use of timers to speed up decisions, changes to who can be on the field during alliance selection, and the rule which now skips your team if a decision is not reached in the allotted time. Yoji also discusses new rules around advancement to World Championships including the new regional advancements points system, retirement of wildcard advancement, priority waitlist, etc. Discussion is robust and there is a productive questions and answer section of this episode.

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