Why does everyone hate this game so much?

[April_robo]

Personally I am loving this game. What has been said multiple times about the match list deciding your fate, I think is not true at all. This is the second year 3548 has been at Royal Oak and we are doing extremely well. At our first district in Southfield we did have some pretty good alliances but we were still a major part of the scores being put up. We ended up being 5th seed at the end of quals. At our second district at Howell our alliances were mostly teams ranked in the 20s and below and we were the top seeded team on our alliance most of the time but we still managed to play with the big dogs all day Friday. Yes things started going wrong Saturday morning and knocked us out of the top 8 down to 13th but the number one alliance knew all the hard work we put in to get there and chose us. I do not believe that the match list decides a teams fate, it gives an opportunity to show off how qualified your robot really is. Scouting this year is one of the most important things you can do and it can change the outcome of the competition for you more than fouls. (My alliance for elims only had one foul, and we still won that match)