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Originally Posted by Robotmmm
I agree with everyone that MORT is not to blame. They hold a top notch event.
Clearly replaying these matches is not possible, but I would like to disagree that no harm has been done to teams that attended this event.
While checking the stats on SPIDER after week one, and again after week two I noticed that the Mount Olive District had the lowest average match scores of all events. This seemed curious to me, but now it is clear why this is so. Of course the averages would be lower because the matches were short by 20 seconds and it is possible to score a lot of points in that amount of time.
So the harm to teams.......OPR.
This number will be skewed negatively for all those teams that competed at MO. This is a lasting effect that will follow these teams until Champs. Not sure how to deal with this fact.
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OPR is a terrible metric in this year's game, and a low one should not be considered as a harm to the teams attended.
Back on this, major thanks Ryan for posting this, it's a very touchy subject and it takes a special type of person to speak about it. FIRST has had more technical issues this year than I've ever seen; here's to learning from our mistakes and fixing them as this season goes on.