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Originally Posted by Rita C
Don't the teams have to earn their way to Nationals?
Rita
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NCs max out at a possible 226 teams. From what I was told, every one of the 172 original teams qualified, no fill ins. Some teams cannot make up their mind and try to come in late. It doesn't mean they did not qualify at some point.
Also, in some cases, there are teams that may have been in the fringe and just missed qualifying, or teams earned berths and returned them. When this happens, the host may offer berths to "fill in" teams. Usually, this comes through the team's JO Commissioner who probably wouldn't lift a finger if that team did not support the local ASA program, so most of the time, it is a legitimate ASA team used as a fill-in.