Posted by Tom Vanderslice, Student on team #275, ORHS/AST/Hitachi, from Academy of Science and Technology and Hitachi.
Posted on 5/5/99 7:03 PM MST
In Reply to: Re: Or we could try the easy way... posted by Chris on 5/5/99 12:50 PM MST:
: I think the luck factor would just shift to a different area. The luck factor would be in the strength of the group of 26 that you're in. A decent team could get lucky and be put in with a group of lesser robots and make it to the dance while the same team might get put in a group with a bunch of good teams and finish poorly. It's a lot like (oh no, another sports reference) Major League Baseball a few years ago when 4 teams in the American League East had better records than the champion of the American League West. The A.L West champion made it to the playoffs and only one of the 4 better teams in the A.L. East made it. That system isn't necessarily fair either.
: -Chris
AHHHHH...it's that word again...'fair'...now..i'm all for fair...fair is
good...and whatever system they decide to use ought to be as close to
'fair' as they can possibly think to make it....BUT...nothing will
EVER be fair...there is not a single system ever that declared a winner
that somebody could not come up with some reason it wasn't fair...
(ex. 'A tournament isn't fair b/c what if i play a good team early'...ok
well...you still lost to the good team...so does it matter whether it
was early or late...i know there is a pride issue...but you still lost...
and SOMEONE has to lose to them early...another ex. this year 'scoring
was centered around offense...defense wasn't rewarded'...everyone was
told from teh beginning how it worked...and that was the point of alliances...
the offensive robots made the finals and hte defensive robots had to
depend on being selected as a partner...)
Bascically what i'm trying to say is NOTHING will ever be fair so that
isn't exactly the best argument....
I tend to agree with P.J. that splitting it up into divisions randomly
and have the best teams from each division pick from whoever they want
would be good...but then again...I don't make the rules..i just have to
deal with them...
my 2 cents,
Tom
Team 275