uvic vikes white team did not get the wild card spot to the world finals early next year, because this year they did not give any wild card spot to this region, after all regional contests finished!!!
they always gave 25 to 26 spots to north america in the last few years, and this region has been receiving 3 spots (2 regular, 1 wild card) in the last few years as well. but this year, they only give 22 spots to north america, and this region only gets 2 spots (there is only one region in north america receives a wild card spot, with more than 100 teams competed and there is a tiny gap between the top teams). probably due to the upcoming world finals in china, more final spots have gone to the teams in asia and pacific regions (probably more teams competed there as well)
however, our two teams are still very much motivated: they keep practicing every wednesday night and participating in online practice contests in the weekend, in order to do well again in the regional contest next year. they are also confident that next time they don’t need to wait for a wild card spot to go to the world finals. we will also need to recruit more teams
we still should cheer for them, in the week/spirit of appreciation (this year, they have already beaten teams from uc berkeley, univ of washington, etc, which have much larger cs programs than us). thanks