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Unread 24-03-2014, 18:37
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Re: 301 points! and could have done more

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Originally Posted by bduddy View Post
That's a different scenario, in that the qualification system back then made it that certain strategies could be advantageous towards both alliances. In eliminations, there are only wins and losses, so there is no valid reason to do anything like that.
Sure, but that wasn't the question posed and, in any case, it appears that even today sometimes there are valid reasons to do this. You can disagree as to whether or not such reasons are truly valid but, hey, it's legal, there's precedent for it and both teams potentially benefit. The GDC may well disagree but I sort of doubt they will.

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Also, for the last couple years FIRST has eliminated such qualification systems, for the most part...
Which, in my mind, is a mistake. It simplifies the scoring but the games back then were a little more interesting in my mind because of it. It'd have some interesting ramifications for this years game, to be sure.
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