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Re: Was Aerial Assist Better than Ultimate Ascent?

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Originally Posted by JohnSchneider View Post
On the contrary, I just believe games should be designed in a way that teams have the ability to excel despite who they get paired with.
"The alliance with the single best robot wins" and "the alliance with the best average robot ability wins" are, as I mentioned earlier, fundamentally incompatible goals.

Why do you prefer the former? More pertinently, if FIRST were of the opinion that the former is desirable, why would they have alliances in the first place?
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