Posted by Veronica at 1/6/2001 9:49 PM EST
Student on team #27, Team Rush, from Osmtech and Textron.
In Reply to: Thoughts?
Posted by Kate T190 on 1/6/2001 3:16 PM EST:
in addition to my other post . . i think though that if you get rid of the back up team because it is gettin a free ride then u will be hurting yourself. Think how many times you have had to put the back up team in for a broken bot, all of those matches probably would have been lost and plus it is nice when the alliances let all three bots play
: What's everyone think about what's new this year so far as what's happening at the actual competitions??
: The first being how seeding to eliminations works.. Seeds 1 and 5, 2 and 6, 3 and 7, 4 and 8 are together-- automatically.. And then from there teams go through the normal rotation of picking teams to be with them through the elimination rounds.. They get to pick 3 more teams!! Is it a good thing that there are going to be 5 winners at each competition?? What do you do if a backup team just gets a "free ride" up to the title and didn't go in for a single match?? Is it fair to be giving them claim to the title??
: The other thing is that the nationals have been split up into different "regions", but this isn't geographically related.. Betcha it's gonna be random.. And we most likely won't be finding out until we get to nationals who's going to be in our group.. These groups, good, bad, neutral??
: Share your thoughts on this.. I'm interested..
: T190 XO
: Kate