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Originally Posted by SpaceBiz
Isn't picking from any of the 5 minus teams still a huge advantage? Plus extra strategic depth would be added to alliance selection.
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I'm not sure I understand your point. Is it a problem if the top two robots win an event?
It's like saying in the NBA, your pointguard is wayyy too good. You're not allowed to have him anymore, we're gonna give him to a weaker team. Find another pointguard. That defeats the point of a competition...
We have the serpentine draft for a reason. If you assign the robot points in reverse order (say the #1 Seed = 24 points, #2 Seed = 23...etc), and theoretically each team picks the best robot they possibly can:
The #1 Alliance is capable of: 24 + 23 + 1 = 48 points
The #8 Alliance is capable of: 17 + 16 + 15 = 48 points
So they come out to be equal, which is what the serpentine draft does. Obviously that's not the case, as the number one and two robots are often much better than the others, but at places like CMP and IRI, this model plays a much more balancing effect. If we want Waterloo to truly be balanced, might as well tell those top performing teams like 1114 and 2056 to make worse robots - would be unfortunate to lose those feats of engineering though, wouldn't it?