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Re: [FF]: Upcoming Potential Changes--Season Long

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Originally Posted by MARS_James View Post
May I comment on scoring:

I feel Chairman's is under valued.

Now here me out:

With the way current scoring goes if you lose all your matches in qualifications and win Chairman's you receive 42 points.
Now if you do the same and win the competition you also receive 42 points, this is due to 12 points in winning quaters, semi and finals then the 30 points for winning it all. Maybe this was by design but I feel if Chairman's is supposed to be more important then winning, why is it worth the same points?
I've been thinking this a bit. And here's the real answer:

It wasn't always this way. Use to be, back the first couple of years, if you lost a match, you lost 2 points. Sometime around the third year, someone realized scoring would be easier if losses were just zero, but no other points changed to reflect this. Hmmm... Say, RCA 50, Regional EI 42, starting next year? Or add elimination losses back into the scoring (so if you're out in 2 in QFs, you get nothing due to the 4 for QF, but if you win even one match in eliminations you get at least a couple of points out of it net).

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Minor tweaks:
With Coopertition Award potentially gone I recommend Judges award going up to 10 points and Gracious Professionalism becoming the new 5 pointer.
Or just eliminate Coopertition Award the same way it was added.

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With the way the rules are currently written the Quality Award is not considered a robot based award, This should be changed next year since it obviously is.
Pretty sure it's counted as robot-based--that's how I always scored it. But I agree.
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