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Re: Scoring For Your Opponents
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Originally Posted by Joel J.
not so long ago teams would get some multiple of the loser's score, if they won. This "tweaking" of points that we are seeing at some competitions is like a remnant of that frame of mind.
Since I wasn't in FIRST before 2001, I can't speak for earlier years, but in 2002 you received some form of the losers score. That is the first year I remember watching teams "descore" to cause their opponents to have fewer "ranking points". The 2002 game had "tethers" back to the end zone for additional points, and robots that obviously had lost would drive out of the end zone so they wouldn't count for bonus points. It wasn't frequent, but it did happen occasionally.
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