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Unread 18-01-2009, 23:22
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Re: A statistical look at G14

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Originally Posted by RobotDevil1985 View Post
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.
No, it's just the opposite. Now when I face off against these elite teams, there's a chance that my alliance partners will put me at a disadvantage because they did well their last match.

My problem with G14 is not what I do, but what my alliance partners do. I can control my team, but I can't control what my randomly paired partners did the match before.
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