[EricH]

Originally Posted by Ether

So, questions remaining:

- Any particular rationale for the 3rd match being the surrogate?

- If for some reason a team cannot play their last match, does their "surrogate" match become official?

Used to be that the LAST match was the surrogate one. However, there were complaints about teams sandbagging it, just to keep their robot in good shape for eliminations. (Or similar stuff like that.) Basically, enough teams weren't caring about it that their partners, who DID have something riding on it, were noticing a decrease in play quality. So, it was switched to 3rd match, when it could be reasonably expected that everyone still has something to play for (including scouting).

And for the other question, no.

If you take a look at the match schedule at the event (not online), there's a column of letters next to each team number. If that letter says "T", that team is a surrogate team. If it says "F", they are not. The list is generated by FMS, and FMS doesn't take to changes in schedule very well. Thus, there is no way to make the team's surrogate match into the one that counts.