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Unread 08-03-2010, 08:40
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Re: Ranking

We just came back from Granite State, and came in last place.
Going into the competition I thought the seeding points were confusing but other then that didnt have much of a problem with it.

Then getting to competition and seeing how things worked i stated to have a problem. I understood that the algorithm was there to not promote a blow out match (9-0) or something, but when it came to our matches all them were low scoring (1-0). Which meant that even though we were winning the majority of our matches and were the only robot that scored in the match we ended up being seeded last place. Even ones we lost were 0-1 matches which meant that we had no chance of seeding high.

The algorithm works if you have higher scoring matches but not if it is low scoring. I understand the having a winning record is not important but our matches were in coopertition spirit i.e. close in score but because it was so low we ended up getting no seeding points. So here the algorithm worked against us. 9 out of our 10 matches were 0-1 whether we won or lost. Thus we were in last place.
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