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Originally posted by jburstein
For instance the LA regional; a team that was broken for every single one of their matches(and when they finally fixed things only functioned poorly) was ranked 4th at the end of the day friday, and through good part of saturday. I think they still wound up in the top 8, though i'm not sure.
On the other hand our robot was functioning very well, and we were dominant in all but one of our matches on friday. At the end i go and check out our ranking, and i'm very surprised not to see us in the first screen (the top 10 or so). So i wait a bit, thinking we must be at least 15th, 15 comes around, and we're not there. I had to wait until the high 30's to see my team number come up.
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As an assistant coach for a 3rd year team and a rookie team, I was in both of these positions at LA this year. I do agree that the scoring system was not quite adequate this year in reflecting the working robots from the non-working robots. Someone from my veteran team even commented on how it seemed better to be a broken robot because your stacks wouldn't get ruined, and therefore you'd get a better score than an effective robot.
That said, I find that too many people are putting an emphasis on points and winning. My motto during the LA regionals for the rookie team was "One good round.. that's all I want. Just one good round for the girls who put so much time in." We finally got that one good round on Saturday after three days of struggling to get the robot working. The fact that we were working was worth more than all the points in the world to me!
Just my thoughts,
indieFan