Thread: Psychological Warfare - The Elimination Rounds
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The tyrany of the clock...
Posted by Joe Johnson at 1/18/2001 10:07 PM EST


Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.


In Reply to: Re: Psychological Warfare - The Elimination Rounds
Posted by Mike Faticanti on 1/18/2001 9:59 AM EST:



This is what I think you both are missing:

TIME makes everything risky.

I believe that teams will find that they can get a
mid-range score 95% of the time they try, a high score
%50 of the time they try and a monster score about 10%
of the time they try.

The thing to remember is that it will often be the case
that going for the high or monster scores may not allow
the teams to even get a mid-range score in the times
they fail.

This is because of the pressure of time and how it
figures in to the score. Teams will have to make a
calculated risk as to what score to try for and what
strategy to try:

Go for the easy one and hope for the other guys to
miss, or go for the homerun early hoping to end it in
two matches (or perhaps giving them more swings for the
fences).

I really can see this being a very excellent finals.

I also see that teams that score XXX in the group
finals may not do so well in the Semi-finals or in the
Finals.

I think that taking chances may be the way to victory.
Chances don't always pan out, to the everlasting joy
of sports fans around the world!

Joe J.



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