Posted by Daniel.
Coach on team BORG (Berkeley Operational Robotics Group) from Berkeley High School sponsored by (working on the sponsor, too).
Posted on 1/11/2000 10:38 AM MST
In Reply to: You're missing the point - just picking on Joe
posted by Raul on 1/11/2000 6:48 AM MST:
I'm starting to wonder what all this talk is about in the first place. Now that I think about it, and I invite all of you to try this angle out for this particular issue, there's no reason why there should be anything 'special' about the top 16 seeds. FIRST has decided to give the biggest reward to the #1 seed (which is no easy possition to get), and only give the same privalege to the next robot down the line who hasn't had the honor of already being picked. We're all getting stuck thinking about how it was last year and 'oh wait! we don't get that same privalege that we got last year!!'. Maybe we just never stopped to think that it may just happen to be the way it's supposed to be. It seems like a fair system, as long as we're all not spoiled from being able to pick our alliances last year.
Try that angle out for size and let me know if it fits.
-DL