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Re: 2013 Lessons Learned: The Negative

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Originally Posted by Tristan Lall View Post
This strikes me as a kind of optimization problem. Given the current composition of the Championship, can it be demonstrated that the value of admitting an additional merit-qualified team in lieu of a waitlisted team will be positive?1 And how does this relationship change as you tweak the proportions and quantities of qualified teams? Is this relationship different for teams that only won judged awards versus the ones with more competitive robots?

I suspect that to answer that, we'll need to discuss the purpose of the Championship, and the criteria used to judge merit and calculate value.

1 Or, given the distribution of likely outcomes, at least a positive expected value and a low likelihood of drastically negative values.

I think there needs to be an algorithm that balances the merits of the team under a traditional points system with some leverage in times the team attended championships in its history/veteran status. I can't tell you what it should be, there should be some sort of consensus met by teams and HQ of what does merit a championship caliber team, but I think it should be pretty easy to reach the consensus that a fastest-finger competition isn't that.
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