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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
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.
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How many times during quals did you
try and fail to deploy the minibot? Did you have any partial successes? My team typically also improves significantly during quals and into elims, but anyone watching can easily see that the improvement is gradual - we get a subsystem half working during a match, and in the next match it is working better than the next match it is working really well. Very different from all of a sudden being fantastic after fail fail fail.
For a team to intentionally sandbag like that would have to involve the mentors, drive team and pit crew and you would hope at least one of them would be unwilling to participate in cheating like that.
Maybe I'm being optimistic about others ability to abide by a rule that is hard to enforce and gives a potential huge advantage (bag & tag anyone?)