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Originally Posted by jspatz1
It is common to regard others with a different opinion from your own as "not serious."
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It's more the fact that it's basically just voting for teams with name recognition and/or cool promo videos. Anyone who watched Orlando could tell you that 1592 was the primary scoring bot on that alliance, not 233. Yet it was Pink that was ranked the next week. Pink's all the way up at 11th now, while 1592 remains outside of the honorable mentions. I know that 233 improved significantly in Boston, but the name recognition bonus that teams like they receive really ruins the credibility of these polls.
You see the same thing with teams like 118, 111, 148, 71, 33, 610, and 399. They're all either very well known teams or released nifty promo videos. They all did well. But there are teams that have unquestionably outperformed them ranked beneath them.
While FIRST's goal is to inspire young people, it will be much easier to do that if we also inspire all the older people as well. - E. Wood [more] 
29-03-2012, 15:24
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