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Originally Posted by EricH
I wouldn't call it a "tainted" win. Everyone on that field had the same issue to one degree or another.
I look at it as, "Who has the best alliance", with an unannounced--and unplanned-for--factor contributing to that called, "Who maintains connection the best".
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This is a competition. The winner is supposed to be the best at building and driving robots. Maintaining a connection is not the thing that's being tested, it's the prerequisite. Further, can you point to a thing that a team can do to maintain connection better? Because if you can, you should have spoken up to all the teams on Einstein, who were being randomly dropped with no discernable solution. This was not a competition, this was a lottery. I put no faith in the results of the event to speak to who built the best robot.
Every alliance on Einstein made it there because they deserved to be there, and they each had a shot at winning. They were never given that shot. The results to me are as though Einstein never happened- all four alliances are the best alliances in FRC 2012.