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Originally Posted by Cory
You will know who is good and who is bad. That's what scouting is for. The best robots are generally the ones that are driven the best and coached the best. The way you play the game doesn't change how well you drive your robot.
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But how can you test driving and coaching if no one is playing defense? At the Granite State regional I saw teams that were prolific scorers break down completely with a big of defensive pressure in the finals. They would go from scoring 5-6 goals a match to 0, or 1 with any amount of defense.
There were other teams that dealt very well with the pressure and could generally still score several goals under pressure, like 1073 who was on the championship alliance. There were teams that knew when to transition depending on said defensive pressure, and there were some that clearly didn't handle it well and suffered blow-out losses in the finals.
Without competitive seeding matches these strengths and weaknesses will never come to light and the final matches will be a complete mess, probably with less capable teams in the top 8. The final matches should be the best, most capable, most competitive teams. Not teams that potentially coasted in because of a few penalties on other teams during co-op games.