Petition: Change Elimination Rounds

[Ken Leung]

Originally posted by Gope
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teamB gets 148 points (total 158)

although in match one teamA completly dominated and in match 2 teamA only lost by 1 point(compare that to the 40 points teamB lost by) teamA does not advance.

I must say, put my name on the petition list, any rule which alows an inferior alliance to advance over a superior alliance is one I will not and cannot agree with.

If you are in the competition long enough, you would remember the reason for winners getting multiple of loser's score. Dean thinks it is a much better idea of everyone get more points than just 1 team beating the other by a lot of points to zero. That's why he made it part of the scoring.

And besides, knowing this is the rules of scoring, team A deserve to be the losing team simply because they didn't let the other teams to get more points to build up their base points. I would say its a poor strategy they are playing, by not taking advantage of the scoring rule. Team B was the smarter team because they let team A get 49 points, and thus get 50 + 2*49. So, in this case, the "inferior" alliance didn't advance over a superior alliance into the next round.