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Unread 03-01-2009, 18:37
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Re: <G14> Shenanigans?

I have no way of speaking to the intentions of the GDC, but this rule definitely has some odd ramifications with respect to parity among teams.

Consider what a top-tier team in this competition will look like. They're quick, they're accurate, they don't need to rely on Super Cells to totally crush you. Since they don't care all that much about Super Cells, they run up the score as best they can in every match to avoid getting burned by penalties. Their partners enjoy victory... and then are at a disadvantage in the next match. It punishes those teams, and also whoever those teams end up partnered with next.

The end result is that the best one or two teams rise to the top, and the rest of the seedings are muddled. We've seen in years past that the number of matches per team at some venues is not quite enough to establish a top-to-bottom ranking that reasonably reflects relative robot performance. Adding consideration for the performance of a team's partners in a match that team wasn't involved with can only add more entropy.
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