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Originally Posted by animenerdjohn
And the point of IRI is to eliminate that as best as possible.
And I fail to see how you are 'in control of your ranking'. when you arent even allowed to play the full game...
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Perhaps I am misunderstanding your post but you are most defiantly more in control of your final rank now than when co-op points make up half of your ranking points. There are two scenarios:
1: With the system that we have been playing with all season half of one’s ranking points were directly determined by how good your opponents were at balancing on the co-op bridge. This meant that no matter how good you were, you could still loose valuable ranking points if your opponent could not balance the bridge with you. So, even if you have the best robot in the world, if none of your opponents are able to balance the co-op bridge with you then you are not ranked first.
2: Now all of your ranking points are determined by how good YOU are at playing the game. If you win, you move up. If you win all your matches and have a high hybrid score you’re in first place. While your partners have a great deal of impact on one’s likelihood of winning the respective match the fact remains that if your robot is better than all three of the opponent’s robots combined it doesn’t matter who your partners are, you will win. So, while you don’t have control over your partners or opponents, every team has control over how good their robot is at playing the game and every team had the opportunity during the build season to build a robot that could beat any other combination of three robots.
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Originally Posted by Tetraman
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I don't know how much weight my argument will hold, since I'm only going to be a spectator this year, but speaking only for myself if this rule holds up I'm glad our team isn't going to IRI because we would have very little chance.
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The point of qualifications is to see who is the best. If the system worked perfectly the best 8 robots would be 1-8 every time. The Co-op bridge allowed an avenue for teams who were not the best to seed higher than teams who were better than them. Some people liked it because the powerhouse teams didn't always seed 1-8. You say your team would have no chance if they went to IRI without the co-op bridge. That may be true with your current robot, however, every team has the opportunity right now to work on their robot to their heart's content. If your team was going there would be nothing stopping you from making your robot more competitve so that you could rank higher.
Of course, these are only my opinions. Feel free to disagree with me, its certainly an interesting topic with several points of view.
Regards, Bryan