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Re: 3 Teams Per Side Too Many?

The one thing that I disliked about 3v3 is that whatever the rankings turned out to be, they deviate more from what it should be than it would if it were just 2v2. There are teams in the top 8 at regionals where I've been to that really shouldn't have been there, while others that should have but weren't.

M.O.R.T suggested that in ranking, every team should be ranked based on their OWN stats, not combined stats. I think that one way to start is to do that is if a penalty were to change the outcome of a match, only the team that committed the penalty would record the loss. That way you don't end a great match where you just barely beat a rival team, only to lose because a partner made a penalty.

But other than that, I like the 3v3 system, especially in elims. Not having to sub out teams means noever worrying about who's better for the match, and trying to guess which robots your opponents will send against you.

Plus the amount of strategy that goes into a 3v3 game is tremendous. Being a coach myself, I love it. We even have a laminated copy of the field so we can use dry erase markers to draw strategies on it.

Bottom line: 3v3 is great, if there were some way to make rankings better reflect robots as they are, 3v3 would be even better.
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