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Originally Posted by Cory
We don't need to put more teams in the playoffs. We need to give teams more qualification matches so that the teams that actually belong in the eliminations are alliance captains.
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I agree with Cory. Too many times, I've seen deserving teams not get to play in the eliminations because they had bad alliance partners, or just plain bad luck in a match or two, and that hurt their ranking. On the same note, I've also seen some teams that may not have belonged there that were seeded or picked because they had a couple of high-scoring matches with awesome alliance partners. Playing more qualifying matches would reduce the "random luck factor" in determining seeding.
How to do this is anyone's guess, but I do know in 2001, they increased the number of matches played by running additional ones on Einstein. Perhaps with a new radio system, FIRST could bring this setup, which could potentially increase qualifying matches by 25%. Of course, this poses a problem with FLL and Vex also being present, but I'm sure things could be shuffled around to allow for a 5th field somewhere.