[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by blazingbronco18

I completely agree. At the end of the day we should have double checked everything was ready to go. I just wanted to see what the thoughts in the community were. I also am beginning to like the idea of counting 2 of 3 semifinal matches.

The issue I have with that is it would punish teams who switched strategies between matches to counter certain things.
One of our big matches we tried to run a 20 point auto. When that didn't work and upon reviewing the match we decided to switch strategies and pull the step bins. By pulling the step bins and removing the yellow totes from the field we had less clutter and more bins to score with and we did better. Invalidating that match and adding in another would give the opposing side a chance to go "well we saw the strat lets counter it!" Now this does happen with field faults, but when a field fault occurs it isn't on either team its on the staff at the event (no disrespect you guys da real mvps) which means that it was unfair to both teams and created an unfair playing field that was out of both teams control.

I feel like this is the difference between someone forgetting an umbrella when they know its going to rain, and someone not bringing an umbrella cause the weather channel said it would be sunny.


Also I'm pretty sure Ms. Frizzle would say "With a smaller sample size you are in for a surprise"* if the Magic School bus ever got to the statistics episode.


*I have no way of knowing if Ms Frizzle would say this but I believe she would and then she would turn the bus into an alligator.