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Unread 07-03-2010, 17:54
Nickel5 Nickel5 is offline
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Re: Playing two different games this year?

Well I for one, don't see much advantage in only scoring on one alliance for a few reasons.

1) Let's say that only one alliance is scored on. One alliance (the "losing" one) will still gain more seeding points than the other alliance if there are penalties. Penalties are very easy to get this year, especially with travel over the bump. Each alliance will want to have more seeding points, so this cohesion will be impossible if alliances can't decide who will lose. In the pursuit of losing on the field, each team will try to score on themselves as much as possible, but this would cause the coopertition bonus to come into play, and so each team would go back to scoring on their opponents. End result, normal game play.

Summary of that confusion I just typed: Both teams will want to lose, the attempt to lose causes the coopertition bonus to kick in, and the game will resume back to normal.

2) If everyone scores on one goal, then at the end the top 8 teams have a high probability of being just random teams. A good team will focus their efforts on showing off their robot's capabilities during qualifications, so they are a nice pick for a top 8 team. You are not standing out at all by scoring on one person.

3) The team that would be chosen ahead of time to "win" will quickly realize that scoring on their opponents will increase their seeding points by even more. The reason for this is the coopertition bonus. Everyone will see this happen, the "losing" alliance realized that they have been had, and no one will so it again.

As far as all of this decreasing a teams trust for picking for elimination rounds, the teams have proven that they want to win, the only way they can win is by playing for the team. They have also proven that they are in the spirit of the game. If anything, you would be inclined to pick these teams.

I know scoring on one alliance has been seen already and will be seen again, but it's more of a last ditch effort than an actual smart strategy of getting to Atlanta.