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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
I think FIRST should be more like the Olympics
teams are scored not only on technical aspects of the game (whether a ball is placed in a goal....)
but also on style and artistic expression!
At the end of each match the 10 judges along the sideline would hold up cards, with their scores for both the winning and the losing alliance.
This would eliminate the need to base scores on the losing alliance, because, while you can help your opponent fix a mechanical or electrical part before a match, there is no way you can teach a clutzy robot artistic expression in 1 day!
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Yuck! Judges? No thanks!
I think the rankings are fine as they are. However, I think the top eight should stay that way. That is, no building powerhouse aliances by picking within the seeded teams. Scouting would be much more important than it is now.
I realize that it may encourage the seventh or eighth seed to sandbag their last match in order to finish ninth and thereby have a chance to get selected by a top seed, but they also run the risk of not getting picked at all.
Maybe this, and having a 1..8 then 8..1 selection order, would make for better elimination matches than the blowouts we get now.