[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by nickpaterni

So do you not think that peer GP pressure would work to alleviate this problem? You would think it would be plainly obvious if collusion was happening - oh, we went 5-7-0 but then all of a sudden start scoring huge in elims - it could even be reviewed and issued a DQ / Red Card if deemed collusion

Or, what if the point values for qual matches were increased so that losing qual matches was something that in the long run needed to be avoided at all costs for you to progress past the district event?

I wasnt around in the early 2000s so I didn't know it used to be that way, very interesting.

You'd be surprised at the number of teams that do better in elims than they do in quals. For example, in Logomotion my team never deployed a minibot until elims at our second regional... and that minibot made all the difference in winning the competition that year. It wasn't due to any sort of plan, just an inability to get all of the pieces working together correctly until then.