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I didn't like it either

Posted by Ken Patton at 04/11/2001 4:54 PM EST


Engineer on team #65, The Huskie Brigade, from Pontiac Northern High School and GM Powertrain.


In Reply to: i didnt like this years game....please read
Posted by Travis Covington on 04/10/2001 2:05 AM EST:



Complaints, in no particular order:

1. The correlation between robot capability and ranking was not very good. Many "less capable" machines had high rank due to good pairings, and many "more capable" machines had low rank due to "bad" pairings or bad luck that was not their fault. Granted, there will always be some of this, but there was more of it this year than in any other year I've been in FIRST.

2. You had a pretty darn good idea who was going to win before nationals even started. (Way to go Bill,Brian, et al. You guys were awesome.) This was not the case in previous years.

3. Alliance meetings were not always the warm fuzzy events that they ideally could have been. Ever had an ally tell you they were going to do "X" whether you liked it or not? Ever had to tell an ally that they should do "Y" because someone else was better than them? Nobody loses, huh? I'll bet some teams didn't feel that way after an alliance meeting... Better to let teams play more of their own game.

4. Defense isn't a bad thing. I agree that there should be limits to prevent the boring defensive elimination tournaments we had in some previous years, but eliminating head to head action takes excitement out of the game, imho.

5. Sometimes the eliminations were anticlimactic. If an alliance failed to beat their opponent's score, the round just ended on a negative note. This game would never make it on TV.

6. The idea of teamwork triumphing over individual effort did not really come through. There may have been some matchup that could beat the Beast from Hammond, but they probably never got to play together because they were in different divisions, or were already matched up automatically as seeds 5-8.

Ken



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