[FRC Blog] "Standard District Points System for 2015"

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Wow. That took a few reads to understand. It's almost like they're trying to make it difficult.

I laughed a little bit while reading some categories, like "Teams on Alliances Advancing Playoff Level" (sounds like it's missing a word) or "Alliance Selection Results After Alliance Selection is Complete". These names seem very complicated and over-descriptive for what they describe.

Also, the use of the inverse error function is just ridiculous. It doesn't need to be this complicated! I'd rather just have a table of values that I can look up, or a much simpler, way more understandable polynomial function that approximates the function in the document.

A requirement for game design is easy to understand and explain. The inverse error function is neither simple nor easy to understand. Most high school students have no clue what it is, so why has it been chosen?

At what point is it unreasonably late for FIRST to release the criteria that will be used to determine a team's advancement to the next level of competition? Honest question here- there's no deadline, and they don't seem to be in any rush to give us information. It doesn't seem unreasonable to think that Michigan teams will be competing before their point system is established!