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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718
The reason for my post way back on page 6 is, I'm tired of seeing and hearing about the same teams in Atlanta, year after year, when I know for a fact that they didn't win a regional. I'm tired of the same teams getting to the playoffs at most regionals. Above all elese I'm tired of veteran powerhouses picking one another at regionals and not letting the teams not already qualified to get a chance at going. Why pick one another when all arealready going, pick the people that have never gone or don't "buy their way in every year.
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First off, are you suggesting that the best teams at the event should pick the robots that don't give them the best chance to win? How is that a good strategy. That would be a form of throwing the competition, in my eyes. When you're on the field, you play to win. This would compromise the integrity of the competition.
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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718
Our team has been turned down at a regional because and I quote them "Sorry, but we only pick veteran teams for our alliance partners" Straight to our faces, that is rediculous, esspecialy after we had gotten the highest scoring match at that regional with them. I simply seen that not competeing at multipule regionals as an oppertunity to let less experianced teams get a chance to be in the playoffs. Yes I know that alot of powerhouse teams are in my area, but I'm not worried about my team. I'm more worried about the teams competing with the powerhouse teams when the powerhouse teams get tired of fighting one another, and travel out of state.  |
I don't want to be mean, but there has to be a reason you weren't picked. The true powerhouse teams that you're talking about know what the heck they're doing. They aren't dumb, or jaded enough to pass over the team that would be their best partner, just because they have a number they'd never heard of before. If you perform on the field, people take notice, and you will get picked appropriately. If you didn't get picked by the top teams, then maybe they just didn't feel like your robot or strategy fit that well with theirs.
Your point that attending multiple regionals should be a tool for diversifying alliance partners, and allowing more unqualified teams to qualify to attend Atlanta is also questionable. Where does it say the goal is for everyone to go to the Championship? A championship implies that it is the best of the best. Everyone who attends should have done so on their own merits, and deserve the right to be competing there (be it robot performance, judged awards, etc). They shouldn't be there because someone felt sorry for them and decided to pick them. Were this to happen to me, I'd be insulted.
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Originally Posted by fuzzy1718
Do me a favor don't respond to this with "You should be spending your time improving you team and not complaining about others, that is a cop-out answer. You know who you are!!!
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I've said it before, and I'll keep saying it. As humans in general we tend to blame others for our problems, when often they are of our own making. Certainly even if it is someone else's fault, blaming them will do no good to resolve your own problem.
If you don't like that your team isn't getting picked as high as you think, go out there and kick so much butt that you're either the one picking, or there's no way the top team won't want to pair with you.
Bringing down the teams at the top is not the answer. We need to bring everyone else up to their level.