Thread: What constitutes the "Best" team?
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Now I get your point.
Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 4/4/99 9:09 PM MST


In Reply to: Sorry! it wasn't meant to offend! posted by colleen on 4/4/99 6:42 PM MST:



Colleen,

I get your point. Thanks for the reply.

I still don't buy it entirely, but I see the point you were trying to make.

I still think that it is not that hard to judge a good team as you indicate.

Without rehashing last year again, I KNOW that Gael Force, WildStang, Beatty Hammond, Baxter Mountain Home, TJ2, 3d Services, UTC International Fuel Cell,Delphi Kokomo and others did not all 'belong' in that losers bracket, yet there they all were. Only one team was getting out alive. It turned out to be Delphi Kokomo, the eventual National Champs.

We all know that those teams were great. Yet the system that FIRST had established last year for judging among teams did not reflect that widely held (and correct in my opinion) view.

I think that this was a problem.

This is why I do not think that we should all just accept that the best teams always win out in the end. I think that it is in FIRST long-term best interest to have teams that are the concensus 'good' teams generally do well. Just as it is in the NCAA's long-term interest for there to be a general correlation between the seeding of the tourney and the results.

My two cents.

Joe J.


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