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Originally Posted by MikeE
And that set of rules explicitly included the clause that climbing points could be varied by up to ±10 points. If a team didn't include that consideration as part of your strategy decisions then don't blame the GDC.
The core imbalance is that a relatively trivial capability on all three alliance robots - 10pt hang following the 3-day robot example - gives the same score as the much harder and riskier challenge of climbing the pyramid.
As several posters have already said, dropping the level 1 score to 5-7pts is probably the most likely action if there is any scoring change for Championships.
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Considering a single robot in autonomous frequently goes for 40+ points in 15 seconds, and only one robot to date has climbed for 30 points in a 15 second window, the game is pretty lopsided.
Perhaps those teams predicted correctly how the game would be scored as is, but also consider MikeE's point quoted above.
I would be pretty disappointed at the end of the season if I felt like the
hardest task FIRST has even assigned was undervalued. In a 150 point match, it only counts for 20% right now. I think FIRST reserved the right to change the point total to see how the game played out.