First of all, thanks everyone for your kind words. We really hope teams can take this to heart and use it to ground their assumptions about 2013 and ultimately participate in more exciting matches.
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Originally Posted by Joseph Smith
The main thing that I take away from this is that Michigan district competitions, at least the ones that we attended, are way above average, score-wise. Especially Troy. Just looking at our own match lineup, the lowest score I see is 9. The average (just looking at matches we played in) losing alliance score is 31.4 points, and the average winning alliance score is 52 points. (I'm not even going into MSC- that's in an entirely different league.)
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Yep, I have a rough draft of an article along these lines. Michigan events are higher scoring and in a more enjoyable way as teams are better across the board as opposed to just having an exceptional top tier. Haven't looked into it more in depth to determine how much of that is due to experience (the two events) and how much is a stronger team base. (and I bet Jim Zondag already knows that answer
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Originally Posted by Karthik
Even with the power of hindsight, they still fail to do it correctly.
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I was talking about this with my dad over the Christmas break and I think he summed it up quite well. "We always figured everyone else (including us) had learned so much from the previous year that everyone would be way better. And we never were."