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Originally Posted by jblay
the thing is that the better performing bots won in the match no matter how good the human players. that is what made the game work out.
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I have the opposite take on this. This is the worst year EVER for top robots.
In every other year I've seen since 2001 an elite robot could win matches all by itself, or with minimal help from alliance partners. This year having sub par alliance partners was the kiss of death. Particularly your third partner in the eliminations. If your third partner couldn't contribute and not get loaded up with 30 balls in their trailer, it doesn't matter if you have the best robot in FIRST. You're still going to lose.
Human players for an alliance could easily score 70 points alone. The best robots could only average 15-19 balls per match. When the humans can score nearly as much, or outright outscore the very best robots, something is not right.