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Originally Posted by Alex Cormier
Whats the point of multiple threads though? It's easier to keep track of, if it's all in one place. Just my thoughts.
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now that the discussions been started here, why don't we keep it here. but for future reference, yes lets stick with the original thread
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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
I wouldn't take the results too seriously.
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I'm with you on this, this is a very political poll. Many teams will get overlooked. Don't lose sleep if your one of those teams
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Originally Posted by BGiraud
Wow. Week 1 we were the #7, two weeks later...off the list. I bet success in our week 6 regional will be a bit late in the season to make up for being out of sight for five weeks.
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For what its worth I'm surprised your off the list too, but at the same moment I'm not. People are very attached to robots not points. So where your team may be as valuable as many of the top 25 teams, much of that comes from your minibot. A perfect example of one of those teams is team 16, who yes went undefeated, and had a strong robot, but I think you should be ranked well above them.
other teams that suffered the same fate are 573 and 836
and look at 1985... great robot and minibot, but didn't make the list (mostly because they competed at st. louis which doesn't seem to be a very followed regional)
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Originally Posted by Nathan Streeter
I can certainly empathize with you... we also won a regional (I believe you were #1 seed, we were #3 pick), ranked well the first week (and pretty well the second week), but have since fallen off the list. To be honest though, I was hardly surprised. I think there are two things going on to make the top teams from Week 1 fall off the list, both of which really aren't surprising but should be remembered:
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To give my impressions on the list... Wow!! That certainly is one list of top-notch teams! As the countdown was continuing, I did often think "man, I thought they'd be higher than that!" but afterwards, I couldn't have said where I'd move that team to! Putting the teams together into such a list is pretty impressive! As always there'll be some bias towards the perennial powerhouses, but every one of those teams is performing at a very high level, no doubt!
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I do everything by numbers which there has been quite debate about... but that being said, 1519 would have made my top 40 or 50. many of the top 25 teams had lethal and reliable minibots. Theres a good chance if you minibot goes up and triggers every race at smokey mountain you will become a top 25 team