Thread: Winning Multiple Regionals
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Unread 04-04-2008, 12:28
DanTod97 DanTod97 is offline
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Re: GP? I think not.
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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol View Post
If the other team was equally as deserving, why didn't they win? Why didn't they beat the team that had already won once?

I don't see what you are asking the successful team to do. Once a team wins a regional, then the only way they can avoid winning another is to either withdraw from subsequent regionals, or throw matches in their next regional so as to deliberately lose. The latter would be incredibly uninspiring, ungracious and unprofessional, especially to the alliance partners in those matches who would also be losing the games.

Please re-read Beth's message #8 - she said it much better than I could, and rep is coming her way.

Edit: It appears others had the same thoughts as I. And I see in a later post that you advocate teams only being allowed to attend one regional. Following this logic, Tiger Woods should be allowed to enter one single golf event all season long, and only if he wins that event, would he be allowed to go to the Masters (or whatever other tournament is decided as the championship for golf, I don't follow it that closely) to play against other champions from the rest of the golf tournaments that year. That would be seriously uninspiring for golf fans. The same thing would happen if FRC teams were limited to one event - although if the program continues to grow, that might become real eventually, but I digress. I feel a bit less inspired this year because GLR and GTR were on the same weekend, and I didn't get to see 1114 in person. I suspect my inspiration will be restored in Atlanta.

Have you ever talked to any of these super teams? Have you ever asked them for help? 1025 is around today only because of the tremendous help we got from a super team, the ThunderChickens, for an entire year. Team 903 was able to compete in Detroit only because of the help they got from multiple teams (many of them super teams) to rebuild their robot to comply with 2008 rules, and then they went on to be an alliance captain at West Michigan. The help the super teams give is inspiriing on its own, beside the inspiration they provide on the field.

You might also be interested in this post: http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...559#post729559
If it was teams that dont normally win going to three differne tones and having an amazing year, then thats a good accomplishment they should be proud of. But there are some teams that they KNOW they are good and they KNOW chances are very high for them to win, and they know theyve had numerous wins in the past, so I dont see why its necessary for them to plan on going to multiple regionals, wiht it being understood chances are very high that they are going to win probably more than one of them.

and THANK YOU to all those who give me bad rep for a having a different opinion than yours, very, very nice. love it.