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Power Play

Posted by Dodd Stacy, Engineer on team #95, Lebanon Robotics Team, from Lebanon High School and CRREL/CREARE.

Posted on 3/15/99 6:44 AM MST


In Reply to: The Society for More Qualifying Rounds posted by Joe Johnson on 3/14/99 7:43 PM MST:



Here's another question to add to the discussion of whether Qualifying rounds at the Nationals will enable the best performing teams to have a shot. What percentage of Qualifying matches at the Regionals to date have wound up 2 on 1 because one of the four teams in a match was unable to field a running robot? It's to be expected that some machines, some times, just will not be able to show up running in a particular time slot, and this pretty well stacks the deck against their hapless ally, no matter how good they are.

With perhaps 4 Qualifying matches in Orlando, one no-show by an ally pretty well dooms their partner team. If no-shows are a big problem, I'd like to see four lines leading up to each field with the teams sequenced according to a prepublished list. If any team is not in its place in the line when it's time to stage up to the "on deck" position, that team forfeits their match, and the team behind advances to fill their place. This approach has a problem with cascading no-shows unless teams anticipate the need to step up and get in line earlier, but the teams who are ready to play are always guaranteed a functioning ally. Other ideas? Is this even a problem?

Dodd


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