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Re: Are The Penalties Too High?

[quote=TierraDelDiablo]The rankings in the end don't truly reflect how a team is really doing just because of penalties. A very good team might be hit with constant penalties from alliance partners. In the end with alliance pairings, some potentially very good teams would be forgotten. Too many games were decided by penalties, and if it happens in elimination, it just makes the losing team feel even worse knowing that they could have won.[quote]

That's what happened to my team. I'm not saying our robot was incredible and penalties completely destroyed our chances, but our robot was undefeated for the first three matches of our regional and throughout the entire regional we did not get a single penalty called on our robot. Our partners however did get penalties called on them and that seriously affected our ranking when we lost the last 6 matches. I do think the penalties are necessary, but I don't think they should be that high.
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