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Posted by Brownscombe.

Other on team #49, Delphi Knights, from Buena Vista High School.

Posted on 4/14/2000 10:16 AM MST


In Reply to: Alliances in touble? posted by Chris on 4/12/2000 7:05 AM MST:



: The problem if there is one at Nationals is that in the seeding rounds a team will only play with a very small percent of the total robots. At even the largest regional teams played with 25 or so teams out of 60 or about 40% of the teams; where as at the Nationals we played with only about 7% of the teams present. If a team attended two regionals and the Nationals they would have played with about 21% of the teams at some point in the competition if there were no duplicates. The way FIRST makes random choices seems to lead to about 3 or 4 teams being paired in the same games at the regional so the percentages are off slightly.

The Parings at the Nationals could be enhanced if the teams were placed in groups of about 60 teams that play among themselves on all the fields. These groups should contain teams that have not been together before this time. The Top teams from each group could then select alliance members (from the entire group of robots present) for the finals. The minimum number choosing should represent about 10% of the teams present so that almost a third of the teams will be represented in the finals. Also since teams will be selected from each group teams that end up playing in groups that are strong defensively or in groups where scoring is low will not be penalized. This is from a team that averaged 23 points a round and won 6 out of 7 games at the Nationals but placed 109 in the rankings.

The last comment of a long suggestion is what an incredible Game.