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Originally Posted by Cory
In previous years, a team could win every single match, but not score a ton of points, but some not so good robots would get paired with real good teams, and then theyd get a ton of points, when they didnt really deserve them, or just score lots of points but not win. Guess who ended up on top? Team #2. Now THAT is unfair.
Cory
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I agree with Cory. Last year was my team's rookie year and our drive system was absolutely horrible (trust me, I built it and drove the bot). We were incredibly lucky during the qualifying rounds at had excellent allies and placed 5th out of 37 teams at the AZ Regionals by the time the elimation rounds began. I want to call it a fluke because we hardly could do anything on the field because our bot could barely drive anywhere. We never even made it on top of the ramp or stacked boxes when we needed to. In my opinion we coasted by last year because of some lucky rounds (77-76 point win) in which our allies almost completely won by themselves. When it came time for finals we got creamed by out higher-quality opponents.
This year, our bot is so much better than last. Even though it still doesn't look like much, it gets the job done. For the first two qualifying rounds our winch was malfunctioning, but after it was fixed we won every single round following in the qualifying rounds and only lost one match in the elimination rounds. Some wins were big, some were small. I think this year's scoring system is much more fair because our team made it to the 4th position (of 36) at the beginning of elimination rounds and I believe we deserved it.
I'm also a huge baseball fan, and in baseball scores don't matter, wins do. Like in the 2001 World Series, when the Diamond Backs (Go DBacks!) went up against the Yankees: In the first 6 games the DBacks outscored the Yankees 32-9, but despite this huge difference it still came down to the bottom of the ninth inning of game 7 to determine the winner. It was much more exciting to see who won than who scored the most runs of the series.
As in baseball, some robots cam win with good defense in low scoring games. Some bots loose with a great offense in high scoring games. By counting wins and not points, a greater variety of strategies are allowed and a greater variety of robots have a chance to go onto elimination rounds. I think this year's scoring system, simpler than last year's, was great, hands down.