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Originally Posted by mikemat
I think the reason for the correlation is the long guys chose long because they felt the benefits outweighed the drawbacks in the game as it was presented at the beginning of the season. The wide bot teams went down the opposite road, choosing to take the potential maneuverability and stability penalties in favor of a better chance of triple balancing. But now, we are playing a game that the robots are, effectively, not designned to play. Instead of needing to triple with an alliance of your choosing, which could be tailored to fit its captains robot, you get a random alliance. Many teams would probably have built a different robot to play these rules than the ones they came to competition with.
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You don't need to be an alliance captain to do well. No, seeding may change some. Honestly, the teams at IRI know are there because they know how to win and awould be smart enough to coop nearly every match anyway so I don't know how much the rankings will actually be affected. The robots that win their matches will seed accordingly and strategically select partners for the elimination rounds. If you are a long robot, and you don't think you can play the new qualification style, then so be it. If you can shoot well, if you can balance with a planned alliance, if you can prove that your team would be a valued member of the winning alliance, then you will get picked, and you wil probably do well. If we consider 359 last year, they were not the alliance captain. They had an outstanding robot and were pciked as a backup team for the (if I recall correctly, please correct me if I am wrong) 4th seeded alliance. They got to play, and they helped the alliance win. You may not seed 1st, but that doesn't mean you can't do well. My team won't be attending so my words not may hold much value here. I still think Holtzman said it best.
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Originally Posted by lemiant
Go back, read Tyler's post. Him and anyone with similar opinions are definitely in the pro (or at least neutral) camp
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Second, I think there are two debates going on here. Debate #1: For/Against. Debate #2: We hate it/Stop whining.