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Originally Posted by TJ92
I so wish I could have been there, MTR would have crushed alliance selections; the competitions we have been at have been pretty good for selections. When I said nothing is wrong I probably exaggerated a bit, because I have noticed a few lower teams getting picked at regionals/districts , but they were raked low on our data. As far as how high those teams ranked according to FIRST I have no idea what it was.
Also does anyone have video from SVR? I would like to take a look at it.
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A big problem with FIRST's ranking is it favors consistent minibots. If you get first place in most Q matches you will win most Q matches. However come the finals, its a very different story, and sometimes very hard to predict. At SVR the field was starved for tubes, so ubertubes accounted for huge portion of the tube score. 254's alliance did not have the fastest minibots, but put up 2 or 3 ubertubes vs 1868 who had the best minibot, but their alliance only put up 1 ubertube. The match was over before the drivers touched the controls.
The game that ends up being played on Einstein is going to be crazy interesting.