[archiver]

Posted by Doug Fischer, Student on team #41, Warriors, from Watchung Hills and Cordis.

Posted on 3/28/99 6:57 PM MST


In Reply to: Why change the rules? posted by Tom Lish on 3/28/99 5:54 PM MST:



: I agree with you completly. I think that FIRST has excellent intentions
trying to include more teams in the elimination rounds, but instead of
having each top 8 team pick two parteners why dont they take the top
16 seeds and have them each pick a team and make the bracket larger. This
will be good becasue not only will it allow for more teams to participate
in the elimination rounds but becasue the alliances will be fairer and
more evenly matched.

: I have read just about all of the point of views
: that people have placed on this website, and I just
: feel that maybe it is time to throw my two cents in.

: No one is more in favor of having more teams in
: the qualification matches than I am. BUT I think
: that forming three team alliances only cheapens
: the title of National champions even more. Adding
: more teams an alliance is not a good solution at all.
: Why add teams to an alliance? Why not just add more
: alliance teams to the elimination rounds. To be
: perfectly honest I am not really in favor of whole
: alliance thing any way, but what are you really going
: to do about it. The worry that I had with the alliance
: partner thing was fear of backroom dealings, throwing
: matches,...etc. Extending the teams to a three
: alliance team only further complicates things.

: I feel that adding more teams( by means of more pairs(2)
: of alliances)to the elimination matches is a more viable solution.
: Think about the powerhouse tri alliances that could be
: formed(EX. Assebet, Bomb Squad,and Beatty) all on one team
: , it is just not fair. So what if one of the two robots
: breaks down in a match. That is why there are two isn't it.
: I can not tell you how many time we were paired with a
: machine that didn't move in conn., But we had to deal with it.

: So, I am just hopeing that they will extend the field in the elimination
: matches and not add a third team to an alliance. Well i've now voiced my
: opinion ( which is somthing that I usually do not do
: ,but I guess i just felt strongly about this topic). Sorry for rambling
: and boring all of you.

: Good Luck at the Nationals!!
: Tom
: Team #126
: "Bad Larry"