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Re: Ranking

Well, as was posted somewhere else earlier.... "FIRST finally gives us a game where human beings can understand the scoring system, and then goes and gives us a ranking system that requires a two hour seminar on co-opertition to comprehend."

I get what FIRST is trying to do with the ranking system. I get the fact that Dean Kamen managed to get a patent on it... I've even read the patent (and the many objections the USPTO raised to it)... AND I get the fact that it is the rules, and that FIRST can set whatever rules they want. Even if I think the rule happens to be needlessly confusing, it is still a rule.

But it would really help to get people (who don't geek out over the FRC rules book) interested and excited about FRC if the ranking system could be quickly and easily understood by a person off the street without a lengthy lecture on "changing culture".

Thank goodness the elimination rounds will make sense to people who come to watch them.

Jason


P.S. My sympathies to those who don't "get it". It will all make sense if you watch a four hour retrospective video on the collected speeches of Dean and Woodie. You might still not LIKE it, but at least you'll "get" it.
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