Championships Competition Structure

[avanboekel]

Originally Posted by emekablue

Question 1: Is there an easier way to explain how our team/robot 'did'?

I usually just say, "we did well/ great/ not too good, etc." then go on to say "we seeded XX out of XX teams, and made the quarterfinals/ semis/ etc.". If they want to know more after that, then you can explain the alliance selection system further.

Q2: Would it be beneficial to complete the alliance ranking by doing a 3rd-8th competition?

I don't think so. This would take away from qualification rounds because of time constraints. Eliminations already take 2+ hours to complete.

Q3: Why does the 8th alliance go against the 1st? Shouldn't be more logical for the 1st to go against 2nd, 3rd and 4th? and so on? Or are they trying to knock off the lower performing alliances for a more exciting finals?

The point of eliminations is to get down to your best 2 alliances in the finals. All other sports use the same system.