Thread: Championship Event - Where the "Random" Match Sorting Really "Shines"
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Unread 01-04-2007, 15:23
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Re: Championship Event - Where the "Random" Match Sorting Really "Shines"
No matter how anyone can try to make this work and try to make a system to make everyone happy, it won't work. There is no way everyone can be happy. Someone will and moan to FIRST about this, and FIRST will try to do something to change it, and more people will and moan about that. There is no freakin' way everyone can be happy.

I would love to see the Championship Event, as a true Championship, and have everything based off merit, but with the way FIRST is set up. Its not gonna happen. Unless the game was 1 v 1, these bad alliance pairings, and the likes are gonna continue to happen. In life, there will always be a flaw, there will always be a weak wheel, its just a matter of what you do with it, and how you can use them to make it all work.
Prime example. No one ever thought a dumper bot would make it to Einstein last year. Look what happened. One fell into 25's laps, and we successfully used them in a strategy few had used during the year, and ultimately, got us as far as we did.

I do hate the current system, and think there is a better way to approach it, but with what FIRST is trying to do, what there goals are, how it is now, is just dandy.

(more to come of my thoughts about this...still deciding/doing a paper)
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