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Originally Posted by aryker
I find this concept of "forcing teamwork" extremely frustrating. Every team, by definition of being a team, ensures that the students are doing teamwork. Throwing in two more randomly-chosen teams as alliance partners and forcing you to rely on them to succeed is just excessive.
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Why?
In most team sports you need to rely on others. The alliance (match team) is made up of individuals (in this case individual teams). If you haven't planned on playing well with others, then you have not planned well.
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Originally Posted by aryker
It's very demoralizing for the kids to have their awesome robot, which they spent so much time and effort on(as a team, don't forget), be seeded at a horrible spot due to a random number generator and a game that forced that random number generator to be a deciding factor.
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Do you truly believe that your seeding had nothing to do with your robots performance, and was only due to a random number generator???
After playing this game, I believe that the game (this year more than any other) is won in the strategy session before the match, and that those that did a poor job at maximizing EACH robots strength (not just their own) are the teams/alliances that will do poorly.
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Originally Posted by aryker
Ultimate Ascent was, in my opinion, one of the best games FRC has ever seen because it was a game where one great robot could carry their alliance, while at the same time, 2 or 3 great robots in alliance together made things even more awesome.
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The highlighted section is why I completely disagree with you. Teamwork (especially within the alliance) is a thing that is valued. Those that do not (and will not) play well with others should not be rewarded.