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perceptions matter
Posted by Joe Johnson.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 1/19/2000 3:41 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: #1 = 60 QP average (Too Low) posted by Daniel on 1/18/2000 11:57 PM MST:



I think a lot of what actually happens will depend the general perceptions at the competition. If it is widely believed that there are 'haves and have nots' then I think that it could easy develop into teams not scoring point for themselves in order to keep from giving points to 'them.'

I think that a little bit of this kind of thinking was going on during some Torroid Terrror competitions.
For those who were not involved, there was a definite break between teams that could go high and those who could not. There were a number of cases when two low branchers played a tree topper. At times it seemed that one low brancher would sacrifice itself to prevent the tree topper from scoring, even to the point that they would rather finish 3rd and prevent a tree topper victory than finish 2nd with the topper coming in 1st place.

While this was not in the best interest of the individual team, it was considered a victory in the 'us vs them' informal competition that developed.

If this kind of a dynamic begins to develop then I would expect that teams may in fact start lowering their scores, despite the modest benefits that flow from raising their score in a losing effort.

Joe J.


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