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Re: The merits of treating robotics tourneys like a game of Fire Emblem

I'm not sure what to make of this. It sounds pretty absurd, especially if the bottom of your rankings ended up looking like "Team XXXX Terrible, Team XXXX Terrible"
How does this sort through the bottom of the picklist and identify teams with desirable qualities?

If using this system and Fire Emblem works for you, go for it. I'd love to just see an example picklist or document showing how this system worked for you at an event just for curiosity's sake. However, I don't want some rookie team trying to figure out how to scout looking on Chief Delphi for the first time and seeing this and using it as a model.

This also relies heavily on one individual's judgement, whereas I much prefer to make scouting and strategy decisions based on the consensus and debate of multiple intelligent, knowledgeable individuals.

I've seen very, very smart people with enormous amounts of knowledge make stupid decisions about scouting based on a silly notion stuck in their head.
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