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Re: Be carefull what you wish for...

Posted by Peter VanWylen, Student on team #107, Team ROBOTICS, from Holland Christian High School and Metal Flow Corp..

Posted on 4/5/99 8:30 PM MST


In Reply to: Be carefull what you wish for... posted by Daniel on 4/4/99 12:02 PM MST:



: (3) Some robots will be very defensive throughout the competition. Perhaps their score won’t bring them in the top 48 robots, but perhaps they are great and completely deserve to compete in the finals. Do they just get forgotten?
Exactly!!
FIRST cannot change to an automatic selection process. Many teams started the whole thing out deciding to be totally defenseive. I take TechnoKats as an example. They are totally defensive, and usually seed near the bottom. However they always get picked in.

If FIRST changed it to this now, there would be a lot of teams that would be cut a short deal. This type of rule change would have made many teams design their robot totally different -- ie. no defensive robots. On the other hand, getting rid of rejections doesn't change how teams design their robots. All that rule change does is help prevent some bad 'deals'

So, in conclusion, I don't like the auto-selection process. Stoping rejections would be the best thing for the competition.

-Peter


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