[rspurlin]

Originally Posted by martin417

How about keeping track of the points scored by each robot, and using that as part of the seeding formula? (maybe instead of the score of the other team?) that way, the teams that score well will get a boost. This may penalize those teams that specialize in defense, but that could be a good thing. As I pointed out after last year, one does not get ahead in life by preventing others from achieving their goal, but being the best at achieving yours.

FIRST games are usually not scored on a robot by robot basis. This year that would have been very difficult to do accurately. The determining factor is the alliance score. Consider the case of three decent scoring robots on one alliance where one is asked to play defense against the opposing alliance's best scorer. Would you do that to win the match for your alliance if that negatively affected your individual team score? I'll agree that FIRST's system is not perfect, but I don't know of a better one.

I'd like to see more events so there can be more matches. Each team got 7 at Championships, usually 9 or maybe 10 at a regional. Still there will be some strange situations. I remember that at Peachtree in 2007, there was a team that was 5-1 after six matches, despite having never moved on the field. Though we were 4-2 at that point, we were still very happy for them.