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Re: [DFTF] Budgeting for a Competitive Robot...

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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson View Post
This is pretty straightforward for me.

A competitive robot is one that is virtually always playing in the elims and, moreover, is drafted in the first round in more often than not*.
This sounds kind of weird to me; when a team is only going to one or two regionals a year, having their robot "always playing in the elims" is a silly kind of statement. That sounds more like a competitive team to me, one that has played enough years to justify the above trend.

I think it should be more along the lines of "usually wins their matches and is a likely pick for elims". That leads to the same result as what you said, but is a little bit clearer from a statistical point of view. It will be easier to gauge the trend off of 2 dozen matches than off of two alliance selection rounds.
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