[benhulett]

After reading jgannon's post about mentor built robots vs student built robots, I do agree with that. I never looked at it that way. I just thought that the majority of the experience gained would be through hands on work rather than watching. I do believe this is a one sided opinion though so I'll take EricH's advice and not go any further into that discussion. But back to the ranking system. Would it not be easier to have a reliable ranking system that brings the top bots forward and reduces the amount of scouting time needed to actually look past the misleading ranks? Because I didn't see much scouting going on to be insanely honest with you all. I'm not saying that our bot deserved this or that, that's not what I'm getting at. I'm getting at the fact that the ranking system shouldn't depend on the outcome of the total match when 1 robot on the entire team did the entirety of the scoring. Although many in this forum have claimed that there are very complex scouting methods out there, I just didn't see it at annapolis this year.