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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
This data isn't the proof, the proof is the fact that G14 penalizes teams who have done nothing wrong. Why should my team be penalized for the actions of my alliance partner the match before?
This shows the upper bound of the scale of this problem.
<G14> is, by far, the single worst rule written since I've been involved with FIRST. There is no justification for this abomination of a rule.
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If you are the team which keeps winning by a landslide then yes you are going to feel like you are being penalized for no reason, but for those teams who were not capable, either financially or technically, to design a robot which is perfect at all the tasks, this is a godsend.
There have been plenty of years where walking through the pits all you hear is "We're matched up against (insert amazing performing team here) 3 times today, we can't win against them." This rule may even the odds a little bit.
It's similar to when your score was based on a multiple of the losing score, it brings the score a little closer together without implementing a mercy rule.