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Originally Posted by Arefin Bari
if this is the scenario...
"during round 1 its would be ABC vs. DEF, the second round would be DBC vs. AEF"
How would they decide whose the winner (regionals, national) and whose the finalist?
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Very good question.
Maybe, matches will start out with ABC vs. DEF, switch it to something else for the second match/part of a round, and then have it go back to the original configuration.
But the blurring of blue vs. red could mean other things too besides alliance switching. Maybe this means that in order to score points a certain way, the two alliances will have to work together somehow.
And back to deciding who wins with alliance switching...
Maybe alliances would somehow be determined autonomously at the beginning or end of the match.
...or...
Maybe all 6 robots would be working alone to score points during the first half of the match... say with 6 different goals... and then during the second half, alliances would be revealed and you would have to scramble to get the goals with the most points.
...or...
Maybe the winners would be determined in a completely atypical way from what we are used to. During a round, teams will be advanced/ eliminated based on how many points they have earned total in all their matches... so basically the top three(or however many) scorers would advance to the next elimination round. This won't eliminate alliances however, because alliances will still exist, but they will be 'shared' so to speak and switched around...
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Maybe there will be some red robots/goals, and some blue robots/goals... and then a wildcard 'purple' robot/goal ... which could go to either red or blue alliance. How it would be given to an alliance has many different possibilities. Maybe, if it were an object or a goal, it would be something that robots would have to fight over to get in a scoring zone perhaps. If its a robot, then maybe you dont know what alliance it will be on until the beginning of the round.
I know alot of these ideas are completely crazy... but like I said... get rid of the unwarranted assumption! There could be MANY ways in which this could work!
-- Jaine