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Man, Earthquakes all over the place, Volcanos and clouds of ashes, S&Ps down 25 pts! and now 1114 is first seed and going to probably pick 469... yep, id say the end of the world is near

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Originally Posted by scessama (Post 954320)

Man, Earthquakes all over the place, Volcanos and clouds of ashes, S&Ps down 25 pts! and now 1114 is first seed and going to probably pick 469... yep, id say the end of the world is near

LOL good way to put it!

I wonder what 1114 will pick second O___O

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday (Post 954331)

I wonder what 1114 will pick second O___O

If they don't want to disappoint it will be 469 but only time will tell.

I am curious to hear 281's and 288's side of the story of how this went down.

And for those who need to see this match...

www.vandenrobotics.com/Videos/cu_m100_hires.wmv

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday (Post 954063)

I watched that match, and loved it! Your looper is just so beautiful in action, with the curve!

I know the trend is to talk about match 100, but I am back into the hotel now and want to say thanks to the above quote. This has turned into an awesome second year experience.

It's funny, the announcer today compared our looper to a lounge chair during one of the games (and called the wrong team name for our number but its stressful so I'll give him some slack. It's Prometheus. LOL) and after looking at our video this evening I thought it does look like a lounge chair when in looper mode. It gives me ideas for off season fund raisers. :-)

Anyway, we got to deploy the looper another couple of times today and its been real fun. Curie is shaping up to be an exciting division.

Now that the exclaiming of our team's elation and fun is over I will return to your regularly scheduled match 100 commentary and state that I pretty well walked out of match 100 as soon as I saw what 1114 was doing. I was looking forward to that match all day to see how the different bots played when against each other, and was disappointed to see teams playing the stupid coopertition aspect versus playing hard that match.

I can't blame 1114 because its obvious they are going for that 1st seed hard, but I do blame the GDC for coming up with a qualification system that rewards lawyering and shenanigans versus rewarding fun, competitive game play. It turned what should have been a super exciting match into a joke, and if nothing I hope this will be the last year of coopertition. You should qualify the same way you eliminate if you ask me.

Good luck to all in Curie.

I watched the match with the lawnchair (webcast, of course), and have been wanting to ask you guys since then:

How was the beer?

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Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday (Post 954346)

I watched the match with the lawnchair (webcast, of course), and have been wanting to ask you guys since then:

How was the beer?

Oh if only there was beer. :-) It would make the competition a lot more interesting for sure. But seeing as its about high schoolers we have to stick to fizzy and fruit drinks. LOL

I wish we would have thought of using a lawnchair, it would have made the construction a lot easier.

Just an ignorant Mom here, but could someone explain to me about match 110? Why did 1511 not get the 2 bonus points for a successful hang? At least from the web cast it looked high enough and in plenty of time. There was plenty of speculation about the red hang, but no discussion about 1511, so we thought it was a given, yet when final score was announced, no bonus for blue. ??

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Originally Posted by Dave Flowerday (Post 954300)

Curious, why do you say gracious?

It was a poor choice of words, I admit. I was trying to convey what a big deal it would be, at least to me, to give up a 'perfect' record for the strategy gambit. Perhaps this is better stated as the perfect embodiment of why the new system is less than desirable: decide that you will probably have a hard time winning, even though you've had a 'perfect' record so far in 3.5 events, and instead of "going for it", admit defeat and go for the strategy. Totally the best strategy, just made me sad to see the game go that way :/ Sorry for the poor choice of words.

And 111's last match may have just earned them a #1 seed on Curie... 1114 has to gain at least 30 seeding points to top Wildstang. Wow, that's strange. That was my 111th post!

Wow! 1114 pulls it off!

1 1114 10 301.00 104.00 22.00
2 111 10 286.00 120.00 4.00
3 2612 10 264.00 124.00 4.00

I'm not sure about the rest, but I think the top 3 seeds are pretty much set.

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Originally Posted by sircedric4 (Post 954344)

I can't blame 1114 because its obvious they are going for that 1st seed hard, but I do blame the GDC for coming up with a qualification system that rewards lawyering and shenanigans versus rewarding fun, competitive game play.

These are the rules as set out by the GDC so I think your portrayal of 'lawyering' and 'shenanigans' are inaccurate. This happened in 2003 on a large scale so the GDC knew what was coming.

1114 is just playing the game in an intelligent way so you are right not to blame them. These actions are not shenanigans or lawyering, they are just the rules as they were explained to EVERYONE. Characterizing their game play as shenanigans is a shot at them, you know that. If you want to criticize the GDC go ahead, but don't bring 1114 into it.

Well, 1114 and 469 are together. Let's see how these strategies play out.

Curie division alliance selection (no declines)

1: 1114 (1) - 469 (21) - 2041 (28)
2: 111 (2) - 1538 (23) - 2630 (36)
3: 1986 (3) - 1676 (4) - 888 (54)
4: 2612 (5) - 27 (9) - 141 (80)
5: 1306 (6) - 2337 (19) - 624 (63)
6: 175 (7) - 88 (20) - 573 (18)
7: 3234 (8) - 2775 (12) - 40 (49)
8: 1511 (10) - 1732 (25) - 368 (13)

Backups are (if I'm reading correctly)
2992 (11)
126 (14)
1421 (15)
2169 (16)
830 (17)
115 (22)
2557 (24)
1764 (26)

No shock to 1114 and 469. I am a little shocked about 2041. However they seem like a good 3rd partner.

I'm just glad we finnaly know who the 3rd parter is on the Alliance we have been discussing about for so long. I hope everyone down there or back home has a good lunch, and Lets hope for some amazing elimination rounds in Curie.