Thread: Placebo Effect
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Re: Placebo Effect

FIRST tradition the last few years has been to make the surrogate matches be the designated teams third match.

As you noted it does make it hard to calculate proper rankings for the surrogate teams.

I've also noted through this season that figuring the rankings in general during the day has been harder than in year's past, because from the pit scoreboard iyou can't tell how many matches each team has played. Other years I've been able to tell which teams, like the aforementioned 71 and 573, lagged the others in rounds scored.
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