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Originally Posted by jdunston94
what was the purpose of that match being thrown exactly?
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It was a very weird and complicated seeding system with losers getting some amount of qualification points based off of the winner's score. I don't remember the exact metric, but that was the basis of the idea.
At Razorback, our team was somewhat in the same predicament. We were, after 11 qualification matches, ranked 11th and would have had a good chance of being dropped into the 8th seed captain. As those who attended Razorback know, our ranking was sheer luck. Fielding a purely defensive robot, we would not have survived as the 8th seed captain. For our last qualification match, winning it would have solidified our ranking. Losing it would have dropped us just far enough that we would have to get drafted and not be advanced up into a captain slot. I briefly tossed the idea around of a strategic loss, but the idea did not go over so well with the team. We played our hardest in that match and ended up losing anyways.
Personal opinion? Gaming the system is indeed a legitimate strategy. There's two way to look at the competition. You can look at it match by match and win win win or you can look at the whole picture and pick strategic losses to bolster your standing elsewhere.