Thread: [NE FIRST] District Championship point cutoff
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Unread 18-03-2014, 09:00
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Re: [NE FIRST] District Championship point cutoff
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Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay View Post
Then why go to a 3rd+ event at all if you only have a 1 in 8 chance of making it into eliminations? This would wreak havoc during alliance selections, giving you almost no advantage for ranking #1.
A third event would still allow you to unbag your robot and make improvements. That is huge. As for alliance selection certainly #8 would get a great last pick but as I said think of the points. # 1 would get 16 points. Those points if given to a team that played two events already and might be going to the championship any how is wasteful.
Wasteful not in a bad way. Wasteful in a spoiler playoff way. In hockey I always loved the spoiler strategy and in NE FIRST I can see it being a viable strategy also.