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Originally Posted by Eugene
If we could use some combination of this year’s system (to allow for more creative game play) and last year’s system (to eliminate randomness and shear luck) I think we would have a better scoring system.
Eugene
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I think sheer luck will always be a gigantic part of the competition. If random and unexpected events never happened then a match wouldn't be all that exciting, i.e. team A always gets the ball release, always scores 5 balls in a basket, and always makes it onto the bar with 20 seconds left, while team B, their opponent, does the same except only gets 4 balls, meaning the team B wins before the match even starts. Boring. There is definitely a range between completely random and completely calculated (best antonym I can come up with for random) matches that is optimum, and I currently think it's at the right level.
However, I am puzzled this year why there are fewer matches. The field takes less time to reset (I think), at my regional there were fewer teams than last year, and the matches are the same length. Why are there fewer matches? Down to 9 from 11? Not to mention the even more limited number of teams you do play in those matches. If it's because there are more teams overall and there aren't enough new competitions to meet the increased demand then what's going to happen in a few years as the growth rate continues to increase and there isn't enough money to have more regionals? Sorry to get a bit off topic but in the future if the number of matches continues to decrease, teams will be less able to operate their bots effectively and random occurences will have a much greater impact than they do now. If randomness is to be
lessoned then there need to be more matches. Perhaps longer days?