Why does everyone hate this game so much?

[mrnoble]

Originally Posted by mikemat

But what about the teams who's goal is be a captain? To seed first? What about the team who seeds 8th but could have been 3rd if it weren't for one foul?

More power to you. Is this year really that much different in terms of these goals than previous years? Watching Waterloo, I saw lots of matches with one great robot, one that struggled and one that barely moved in alliances where they won by a wide margin thanks to strategic play from the great bot. The best robots in Utah seeded first and second. And if your bot went from 3rd to 8th based on nothing more than a foul caused by your alliance partner's poor play, do you think the scouts in #1 and #2 don't know how great you are?

I'm not saying that rules and human error in reffing calls aren't deciding some matches; clearly they are, and they've changed my team's fate in our first regional. But I've been doing FRC for 10 years and have seen that happen before, in almost every year's game. That's part of what happens.