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Re: Rookie Teams in Elims

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Originally Posted by seg9585 View Post
Actually, that shouldn't really factor in. Who can assume a team will be effective in elim matches when they haven't been able to score in qual matches? If a team's bot isn't effective, first regional or not, why should they be ranked higher because of their "potential"?

Everyone has code or mechanical issues in their first regional -- and most teams only go to one regional (especially rookies) so I don't see any correlation.

You don't necessarily "assume', but you might hope. I could give you numerous examples of robots that finally got the bugs out late, and then won the whole thing (with their alliances help of course). I can think of 2/4 division champion alliances last year that had such a partner.
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