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Originally posted by Bob92
I just wanted to know if this happened at any other regionals.
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It was the reason we dropped 3 places in the rankings in the 3rd day of the Peachtre regional.
One of the other teams in our last match - which we knew was gonna be tough because we wee up against two veteran bots - wanted to make such a deal. We almost said yes, but changed our mind at the last moment because we all agreed it would make things boring and unfair to the other teams. So we didn't, but still finished all of our matches seeded 3rd. We figured we'd stay there, as we had a 30 or so point lead over the 4th place team.
Of course, we were one of the first teams to finish all of our matches, and immediately after that it seemed as if ALL of the veteran teams started fixing the matches. Scores in the high 200s to low 300s popped up like weeds and our rankdropped like a rock.
To be fair, most of the teams who ended up above us did have very good robots. However, that begs the question of why they weren't ranked higher than us
before...