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Originally Posted by Kingland093
I'm not a big fan of this game for a few reasons.
My team was in a very weak regional and in almost every single qualifying match, we were stuck with really bad robots. As a result, we went 1-9 and were ranked 62nd out of 63. It was really frustrating because every round, someone's shooter broke, or the refs didn't notice that we were calling a dead ball for 30 seconds or one of our partners got a foul. Our robot was running great and was pretty decent.
Basically what I'm saying is that since so much emphasis is placed on your alliance, a decent robot in a field of bad ones won't do well and won't get the attention of any scouts of the good teams
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My team went to a poor regional as well where there were a lot of rookies and newer teams in the area so bad alliances was common, and the first seed was the powerhouse seed and of course won. By the time they got to us at 6th seed there wasn't the best selection of teams there (yet I still blame the co-captain for not picking 1939 ((and again with our driver at the next regional))). Our only reasons for losing matches was because the other teams didn't listen to us and there was a lack of communication and strategy, or they were a very new team that wasn't working too well. We had problems with the deadball card, half because the team with the ball stuck in their robot refused to hold up their card and weren't able to find it to hold up, when we should have probably put ours own up and slammed the glass as hard as we could.
I agree that the good robots on alliances of not as good ones can really harm your ranks, especially when they don't seem to listen to the plans to work better. The matches we lost were because of miscommunication and not as good teams, not because of breaking down. If a team has good scouting like they should, they won't focus all that much on the results of an alliance as much as they need to on the robot's individual performance, if it's shooting well, if it can catch, how quick its' intake and outtake is, how good it's assists are and how often, not so much on how they're working with say the teams that are having low performance.
Also the elims are really interesting, but in my personal experiences it would be better to watch the same power house teams go up in the finals over and over and over and over every single regional, and they're extremely brutal. I watched a certain team completely and repeatedly ram into another robot to hit off another's pickup mechanism as seen in a match screenshot
here from when they were evaluating the damage for the score.