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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
More often than not the endgame is worth too many points and then everyone complained last year's endgame wasn't worth enough and didn't bother doing it.
The GDC can't win.
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I agree... they walk a very fine line with both autonomous & the end game. I think the minibot is hugely important. I also think that we will see a repeat of many previous years where teams will not work hard enough on it, and we will see many attempted races with only one (or zero) finishers.
Food for thought is that teams often misjudge how much of their effort to spend on a particular task. I went through TBA's data, and it turned out that the average qualifying round winning alliance in week of 1 of 2010 scored about 3.8 points. An alliance of three kitbots with a rudimentary but working hanger could've easily won the average match last year. The GDC made it important but teams missed the bait! I think their task is made even more difficult because they need for teams to realize it is important, without making it so important that it ends up destroying the "main game."
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23-01-2011, 14:27
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