Thread: AZ Regionals: Incorrect Scoring?
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Re: AZ Regionals: Incorrect Scoring?
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Originally Posted by Uki
That wasn't true, he was working on it 3 months after championship fixing things, we didn't even have live scoring till late in the season. And this big problem you seem to think we have, was not caused by the scoring system. It was caused by the game design commity changing the rules of the rankings before last week's regionals. I'm sure most of you got the latest update that states that.
The rule change (released 3/10) shouldn't have impacted w/e #1 events (released 3/3-3/5) , though. Also it should not have impacted win-loss in this example: I saw a team in Florida, 1390, have two wins and one loss, yet their stats showed up as 1-2-0. Their first was an outright loss, no penalties. Their second, an outright win. Their third they won even without the opponents penalty.

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Originally Posted by Uki
The other reason why TacOps was not used was because Alan Bradly donated a enough PLC's to be used for this years competition. And at the time, there were NO unix or linux drivers for Alan Bradly PLC's. There would have had to been drivers written, which would have cost FIRST even more money to do, along with the fact they would not retain ownership of the code written specificly for there use.
Are the scoring and field controls closely tied together?
If so, why? Could the scoring be modular and extracted out? The only thing the field should need from scoring are the team numbers for the display and maybe the match number. The clock can be started and ran outside scoring, if not done already.

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Originally Posted by Uki
One of the other big contributing factors is that Hatch only had a month to design and test there software. I will tell you right now, TacOps had far longer then Hatch did for this, as people who said in this thread before, the software had been developed for years, why did it have so many issues last year then? If it was such a great and wonderful program, why was there so many updates and glitches last year?
Scoring (calc of QP and RP) is virtually the same as last year, minus update 15. If match scores and rankings are being adversly affected, why not switch to an excel spreadsheet and "hand compute" the seeding? That would at least preseve the integrity of the tournament.

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