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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
That isn't true. ....
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The purpose of a handicap/rating system isnt to makes everyones final scores all come out exactly even
the purpose would be to take a step towards leveling the playing field.
On average rookie teams do not field very competitive robots. If a rookie team does expectionally well, they deserve to win.
If a team won a regional last year, we expect them to do even better this year, and be a championship contender.
If you put a shooter on your robot, and you do a poor job on the design, so it cannot score many points, then you will be one of the poorly designed robots in the shooter class, and your score will reflect that.
Having a handicap system will allow HS-only teams with little funding and no mentors to focus on a simple defensive robot, and at least have some chance of making it to the finals.
Look at it this way: you are seated in the top 8, and you need to pick two robots. You want one shooter and one defensive bot. With the handicap system you have more incentive to pick a good purely defensive bot, than to pick a team that tried to do everything and does nothing well, just to play defense. You would have more incentive to pick a rookie team, if that means your alliance has a better handicap rating.
Leveled playing field.