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Time in quals. vs finals
Posted by Allen Smith at 03/12/2001 2:37 PM EST
Engineer on team #7, Knights, from Parkville High School and Black & Decker/AAI/Raytheon.
In Reply to: Getting rid of Time Multiplier? Ridiculus!
Posted by Andy Baker on 03/12/2001 12:06 PM EST:
One good aspect of the time multiplier is that it ends boring matches in the qualifying rounds more quickly. We no longer have to sit through a minute or more of robots just twitching waiting for time to run out.
But in the finals if the team's strategy runs into a glitch and goes past the minute mark then you know the team is doomed with no hope of last minute reprieve. In past years you could have dramatic swings of multipliers as one team was knocked off the bar or puck and another team took it's place in the final seconds.
All in all you have to admit Dean Kamen et al did a good job again with designing and refining a game before one match is ever played. Look at all the pro sports, they have been playing those for over a hundred years and they still tweak the rules almost every year.
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