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Re: FRC Top 25- Preseason Ranking

Well, then I guess we should ban Looking Forward and shut down the Fantasy First forum (which you seem to be pretty active in).

There will always be people that think that these types of activities are discouraging to the teams that don't make the list. I personally find these activities fun and I hope they continue.

I have written my opinion in two very similar threads before so I will just quote those posts here instead of trying to say the same thing over.

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There is no disrespect intended to any of the teams not drafted or drafted lower than other teams. The scoring is based on point values awarded for wins, losses and the various awards.

Teams that have consistently had winning records and earned awards are the teams that will be rated higher by the drafters and thus selected earlier. This does not mean that they are accomplishing the mission of FIRST any better than your team or any other team, it just means that they are more likely to score more points in this game.
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I don't think it has anything to do with "faith" in regions of FIRST. When we (or at least I) look at the regionals and guess (that's all we're doing here is guessing) which regional will be strongest/toughest/most competitive/highest scoring/etc. we are merely looking at lists of teams and applying past observations to future events.

Even if every CD user thought that Midwest was going to be the best regional ever because 111, 1114, and 71 are going to get on the same alliance and zip around the field scoring 300 pts. It doesn't really make it any more likely to happen. We have to always remember that many things that happen here on CD are for fun. When these threads pop up about what regional will be this or that or when we draft teams for FantasyFIRST we have to remember that FIRST is even less about these threads than it is about the robots. Instead of looking at these threads and being angry/disappointed/frustrated about why your regional or team is not the highest on the list we should look at the teams that are the highest on the list and try to figure out why they are there and how we can better our own teams and regions so we can try and reach that same level.

If you want to have a debate about which regional is really the best, first you have to get some data about which regional had the most learning, which regional had the most inspiration, and which regional had the most fun. When you find an objective way to determine that, then I might believe that what we are talking about here really matters, until then these threads are all for fun and I think that anyone that doesn't see that needs to relax and take a step back.
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