[10intheCrunch]

While GP is certainly important to the whole FIRST idea, I think basing the seedings off of the opponents' scores strays a bit from professionalism. Professionals play fair and respect their opponents, but they still play to win. Scoring points for your opponent to increase your own score seems selfish and patronizing--you are telling the other team their best efforts aren't good enough. Further, because of the 2x rule last year, 254 in at least one final played to lose--we just cleared out all the boxes from both sides to prevent the other team from catching up in QPs. We played to win the final, but not the match, and it feels like we cheated another team out of a good round because of it--not terribly GP.

I believe the new system will work much better, though I agree that seedings should be based on a teams own score. Let gracious professionalism pervade our lives...but let us still be professionals out on the field.

Or maybe I don't get GP at all =), feel free to yell at me.

Cheers,