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Originally Posted by The other Gabe
Part of FRC is to introduce you to how engineering is in real life: you can't use a redo card if you're landing something on the moon.
this is also unfair to the other teams, who successfully beat you, in part because they remembered to tighten every screw, plug in all the batteries, make sure their pneumatics were well built (cough cough my team in 2012 cough cough).
FRC, especially recycle rush, is about having the robot best made for the challenge win, and that includes durability (in my opinion anyways)
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Good point. I think is why the best two out of three system is better in my opinion because it gives each matchup a "get out of jail free card" so to speak in that if you lose one match because something went wrong you didn't seal your fate. On the flip side two out of three doesn't fit well with this game at all because there is almost nothing a majority of alliances can do to influence their opponents.
It happened to us twice this year with two big messups on our part leading to an early out in the quarterfinals at both of our events. In our second match at Reading we messed up placing the RC on top of our 6 stack which kept our average 10 points lower than what we needed to move on. At UNH our driver station malfunctioned for the first 30 seconds of our second quarter final and we sat out of semis by an average that was 1.5 points lower than what we needed. Our apologies to 1768, 1289. 138, & 1307.
Its a brutal game but a match replay coupon is not the answer. As if there weren't enough field time outs already this year.