I agree with most of Bob's post about the motivational & inspirational benefits of winning or losing individual matches, but I'm also looking forward to seeing how this game develops both in play and tournament feel.
It was a good decision to keep the Finals as straight win-loss.
The best feature is that, in principle, the top two alliances meet in the final rather than the best teams from each side of the Alliance bracket. I've never seen a Alliance 1 vs Alliance 8 final before! (Although some offseason events uses
double-elimination repecharge)
From a logistics standpoint it's also great that the number of Playoff matches is very predictable: 16 or 17 depending on the finals rather than 14-21 of the past few years (even more in years with frequent ties - Breakaway anyone?).
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Originally Posted by Bob Steele
I understand how this is going to be done. It is interesting that for semi finals all alliances get to play three matches and you get to average your best 2 scores.
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I'm not trying to be pedantic but in semi-finals the average score of all 3 matches are ranked, not just the best 2 of 3.