[archiver]

Posted by Wayne Cokeley at 03/16/2001 9:22 PM EST


Coach on team #25, Raider Robotix, from North Brunswick Twp. H.S. and Bristol-Myers Squibb.


In Reply to: Trying not to seed....
Posted by Jim Meyer on 03/16/2001 8:51 AM EST:



: I was just wondering if any teams out there have thought that they might be better off if they were not in the top 8?

: The fact that doing poorly in a match may help one team but hurt the other 3 has been bothering me. It just disappoints me that this aspect of the game is back.

: Is there anyone else out there that would like to see a system where it never helped a team to do poorly?

: Did last years system, where you could pick any team regardless of their seed, have some negative effect that I am not aware of?

That interesting point came up this very afternoon at RU. I tell you, at times I thought our partners were working against us!
What was most incredible and distressing to me was what our drive team reported- essentially that many of the teams approached the field with the attitude of " I'm doing what I want and to heck with the rest of you". A few didn't want to even consider working with their partners. Usually those same robots failed miserably at what they were "expert" at. A number of times robots did self centered, obstructive things which greatly lowered the round score. It seems that the concept of cooperative team work hasn't caught on with some of us..To get high scores in this game all 4 bots will need to work together to contribute to the whole. There was a distinct lack of that today.
And waht about "extra" robots in rounds. It would be ironic if the best round of the day involved "extra" robots who couldn't share the score and might lose a seed because of it. We always will do our best but the idea lingers....