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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
EVERYTHING Lil' Lavery has been posting
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Lil' lavery and tom, you guys are right on. I was in class and could not defend myself...
But think about it this way Ken. This might be too logical for some people.
Your on a rookie team that just defeated 71 or 111 or 469 or (other great team with a history of doing well). How great would you feel if you won that in a fair match? Pretty good huh. But what if you win since you get X amount of handicap. You would like the trophy, but wouldn't feel like you earned it.
You make a robot, you analyze the weaknesses, you make it better. Adding handicap to the mix would make it so innovation and change would stop. Teams with subpar robots just think "handicap will take care of our faulty X". You strive to be better every year. Goals are usually to improve on the knowledge from last year. What's next, everyone gets the same amount of trophies?
If your robot is not performing as well as other teams, instead of adding to scores, teams should realize they need to innovate and change, not default to a ranking system.
WIth handicap teams have no reason to improve since it would not matter. This is the basis of my argument.