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Re: Trying not to seed....
Posted by Raul at 03/16/2001 2:03 PM EST


Engineer on team #111, Wildstang, from Rolling Meadows & Wheeling HS and Motorola.


In Reply to: Re: Trying not to seed....
Posted by bill whitley on 03/16/2001 11:52 AM EST:



71 and 111 together - bring it on! If we were with 71, then we would just pull a goal over for them or whatever they decided, whatever they think is best for the alliance!

Anyway, I can see where it would be tempting to try to manipulate your seeding in the 5-9 range to be with a certain team. I can think of only one good positive example to manipulate the score: Score a big ball for someone other than yourself so they get the 10% bonus instead of you to prevent you from moving up in the standings by a point or two. I think it will be rare that a team will be presented with an opportunity to do this in this positive way. Thus, I agree that it would be best if they just changed the selection rules to what they did last year and allow seeded teams to pick each other.

However, if I was allowed only one wish to change something, it would not be this. I would use my wish to allow more teams to be in the eliminations from each division in the nationals.

Raul

: If you are chosen into an alliance, it is more likely that the you will benefit to & from that alliance. The automatic pairing could hurt your alliance, (imagine 71 & 111 automatically paired together), their robots do not compliment each other. In that case, you might be better to not want to seed, and count on your chances of getting picked, and having a better shot at the finals.

: Bill
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