10-01-2010, 07:50
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761 Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 877
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Re: Breakaway Discussion
One of my college professors had an interesting rule - all grades are scaled so the highest scoring test gets 100%.
The side effect that he specifically pointed out was that if absolutely everyone skipped the test, everyone gets 100%. He never had that occur. Someone (usually everyone) always shows up.
The same will be true here. Can you trust everyone else to put their shiny cool robot on the field and not use it?
Last year, they used G14 to get more even matches, and people did score on themselves to prevent it (sometimes). The same must happen here. A good driver/coach team will know when to score on themselves without risking a loss. The new seeding rules are certainly controversial, but they will also certainly make for an interesting game.
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Student FRC23 (1996-1999), Mentor FRC246 (2000), Mentor FRC1318 (2007-2009), Mentor FRC93 (2011), Mentor FRC2151 (2012), Mentor FRC23 (2013), Mentor FRC4761 (2014-2017)
1998 - National Chairman's Award and Woodie Flowers Award (FRC23, Mike Bastoni  ) | 2007 - PNW SF (488, 1595) | 2008 - Oregon RCA - Seattle #2 Seed, SF (488, 1696) | 2009 - Oregon #1 Seed, Winners (1983, 2635) - Seattle SF (945, 2865) - Galileo #2 Seed, SF (973, 25) | 2012 Midwest F (111, 71) | 2014 RIDE Winners (78, 125), Inspector - NEU #24, QF (3479, 3958) - NECMP #35 | 2015 Reading #11, SF (1058, 190), Inspector - RIDE #17, QF(4055, 5494), Inspector - NECMP #57 | 2016 Reading #4, SF (133, 4474), DCA, Inspector - Ride #22, SF (1735, 2067), Creativity, Inspector - NECMP #48, RCA - Archimedes
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