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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
...we could have something like a handicap system (used in golf for example).
Your teams handicap rating would be based, not on the event you are attending, but on past performances.
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Anyone who has played a sport with handicap like golf or bowling, will understand the term "sandbagging". Sandbagging is when you perform badly on purpose to gain an advantage later in the tournament or season. Handicap systems lend themselves easily to this kind of strategy.
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
Likewise, if three rookie teams are allied against three championship winners, the rookie teams would have a large handicap rating, and they could win the match if they play well, even if they finish with fewer points.
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Rookies have to learn to compete somehow. How can you compute how much a team from 1996 will score compared to a team from 2006?
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
You could also have ratings based on the robot design. A purely defensive robot would have a different handicap rating than a robot designed to score points (because it is much more difficult to score points with a purely defensive design).
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The best rules in FIRST are rules that are black and white. What kind of commitee decides what is defensive and what is offensive? This is definatley a gray area. FIRST is great because it lets kids make ideas into reality! We have rules for robot safety and identification, size and wieght, we don't need rules telling us what to build (with the exception of bumpers which are great for so many reasons).