[Taylor]

I understand that in real-life engineering, mistakes can be fatal - catastrophic even. I understand that FRC is made to mimic real-life engineering - too tough a task, not enough time to do it, not enough money to fund it - the things Dr. Flowers says every year.
I also understand that FRC is at least partially a high school event. I liked using the Qualification Average as a way to rank the teams - it seemed much more effective than the traditional WLT method. And good teams with bad matches could still perform in eliminations through alliance selections.
But the challenge of overcoming a bad match in eliminations was, in many ways, impossibly hard. If a team got a DQ - even if it was due to miscommunication with event staff - it was a death sentence for the entire alliance.