[Petey]

To those of you who have made the point that the best alliance should win--

I agree. My point is that it is rather annoying to know that you could build an awesome robot, throw in a ton of person-hours, and come up with a sick strategy--in short, do everything FIRST wants you to do--and be paired with several completely ineffective robots and be unable to overcorrect. Last year, if a robot was good enough--I mean, just dominated completely--they could carry an alliance and win. It would be their own reward. This year, we find that that won't happen as much, because now a team would have to carry two other teams.

Just my own opinion, again.

Billfred--

Certainly the game isn't fair, life isn't fair, et cetera. And yet, you think that with FIRST as a social vision, we'd be attempting to move towards fairness, or at least rewarding hard work. And I'm not sure that this game serves hard work as much as it serves the vagaries and chance of any high action game.

We'll see at comp.

--Petey