[EricH]

Originally Posted by Chris86

I was under the impression that the change to the scoring system was because of how many lower quality robots were ending up in the top 8 that resulted from the original ranking system.

That too--partially. But the original ranking system didn't care if you won or lost. 6v0 + a robot that didn't pass inspection/take the field landing in the top 8, and they added the 5 points to eliminate both.