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Re: Mentors Not Reading Rules

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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber View Post
And tournament. At very least the Qualification Seeding section. It never ceases to surprise me the number of folks who don't understand what you have to do to seed high.
I can't stress this enough. The Tournament is always the first section I read. If your goal is to win an event, you need to understand what it takes to win the event. By reading the Tournament section you learn by what criteria teams are ranked and how matches are win. Once you understand this information, you can read the rest of the rules and start brainstorming strategies to maximize these criteria. FRC changes their ranking criteria regularly enough that it's essential to make yourself aware at the very beginning of every season.
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