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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
How many of those teams do you think are actually lying instead of citing their designed "upside?" Their robots were designed to do those tasks, and many still believe they'll be able to by weekends' end.
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Oftentimes it is so overstated it is lying even if it is well intentioned. In 2008 at BAE we asked teams in the pit what they though a realistic estimate of their hurdles/match would be over the course of qualifiers. The average team told us 4, yet come noon Saturday only four teams had averaged two hurdles per match, one was very close to three. Interestingly, all five of those teams had come close to correctly guessing how many hurdles/match they would be worth.