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Re: Picking from top 8 seeds
[quote=Alpha Beta;1259218]Leads to teams sandbagging to be 9th or lower instead of fighting to be 8th so they can be picked by #1.
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I agree...it would lead to gaming the system...and besides...1 doesn't always pick two, and as I've seen in this year's game, if two top teams have similar robots and one of them picks the other, it doesn't always work out in their favor. The dynamics of an elims match are different than those of qual matches, and teams with better strategies and coordination have been able to pull off some exciting upsets against these "super alliances."
I, for one, think it's exciting to watch these super alliances. Their combined strategies give me ideas for how to approach future games and future robot design.
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2014 Texas Robot Roundup Winners (with 624, 118 & Pearland Robotics Pre-Rookie Team)
2014 Texas Robotics Invitational Finalists (with 148, 3735 & 3999)
2014 Dallas Regional Quarterfinalists (with 2587 & 5057)
2014 Alamo Regional Finalists (With 2468 & 148)
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