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Originally Posted by Hitchhiker 42
I don't know if I'd go this far. This would require teams to calculate in their own heads (or calculators) what the new score would be and if it would swing the game. I think this would just waste more time, and it'd be easier to just say points instead of ranking points.
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For quals, the requirement that it change one of the aggregates in the ranking algorithm (though I'm not positive that's what cgmv means) would be pretty loose in most years. This seems like a reasonable standard, since it's easy enough to know beforehand ("that would raise our auto score total") and speaks directly to the impact quals are supposed to have. We could probably keep the same condition for elims for simplicity's sake. Alliance Captains should be smart enough by that point not to risk losing a challenge on a ruling that wouldn't actually benefit them in the bracket.
Not sure how I feel about requiring every member of a qual alliance to still have their challenge coupon. I think I'd be okay with "any" instead of "all". It likely means more challenges, but then normal teams can't be burned by being randomly assigned a trigger-happy alliance partner who wasted their coupon on match 1.
I suggest some kind of time limit rule as well, like the completed coupon must be submitted to the head ref by no later than the starting whistle 3? matches after the match in question (match 4 for a challenge in match 1) or before the next elim level. The latter gets tricky if you're the last QF match to play.
I currently envision the challenge coupons including team name, match number, alliance color, specific challenge (from the list of acceptable ones), approximate time and field location, and a FOUO section for review outcome. Anything else? (Refs would archive the submitted slips; if you're right you'd get another blank one.)