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Not as bad as we think?

Posted by P.J. Baker, Engineer on team #177, Bobcat Robotics, from South Windsor High School and International Fuel Cells.

Posted on 3/16/99 12:04 PM MST


In Reply to: The Society for More Qualifying Rounds posted by Joe Johnson on 3/14/99 7:43 PM MST:



I’m not sure, but I think FIRST may be a little more clever than we are giving them credit for. I was not in Philly with the Bobcat, but from the video I saw and some pictures on WPI’s page, I am pretty sure that team 177 played against at least two teams twice in our 6 seeding matches. There is a post below that says the same thing happened at KSC "How Random is Random?". Based on those two observations and nothing more, I wonder if this is what is happening:

FIRST recognizes that the field is too big for a small number of seeding matches to produce the "real" top 8 teams when the picks are completely random (your opponent/partner could be anyone in the tournament at any time). To combat this, they randomly break the field up into several smaller groups that end up playing more of a round robin format. In these smaller groups, the best teams should be able rack up a respectable scoring average even in only 4,5, or 6 seeding matches. Obviously, this is not as good as having a large number of seeding matches, but it is better than everything being "completely random"

I may be way off base here, but I thought I’d throw this idea out for everyone to kick around.

Good luck everybody!

P.J.


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