Lets not forget that at most regional events, the last pick in the draft is ranked above average. A game where the tops teams are able to question whether an
above average ranked robot is more of a liability than an asset is completely unbalanced.
That said, I think the true issue with this year's game lies with how it plays with low tier teams. Other people have talked at length about how the points with RC's favors top teams and the lack of defense removes the major role of weaker teams so I will instead talk about the ranking method in this year's game.
In past years, if six weak teams were playing each other, everyone can get excited for a 3:2 finish. The winning alliance feels good about clutching out the victory and maybe a team scored a last second goal or something and is feels like the contributed to the alliance effort. Objectively speaking however, all six of these robots are weak and none will advance to eliminations but they are still able to be happy about getting a win. This year however, with average match score deciding ranking, there won't be a single one of those six teams walking off the field feeling good about how their robot did.
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Originally Posted by dcarr
This may be true at larger events with a deeper field, but I'm not sure I'd qualify that as "most."
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Edit: On average, regional events have 51 teams this year.