Problem's with 2015…

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Originally Posted by Riverdance

I guess the big problem that I have with the game is the way that the rankings work along with coopertition points. Teams that may take an entire match to do coopertition points and never do anything else end up ranked extremely high seeing as co-op factors into your ranking at multiple levels. Then during playoffs, these robots who end up as alliance captains have almost nothing to do during the match and struggle to complete other aspects of the game, because all they needed to do throughout quals to get a reasonably high ranking was co-op. On the other hand, versatile robots that perform a lot of functions often get short-changed on the ranking.

Most of the FRC games are like this. In 2012, if a robot focused only on co-op they would usually seed higher than a robot that focused on winning. Then in finals, they wouldn't be able to score much outside of a double.

In 2011 robots that had a working mini bot (in competitions that didn't have that many) would rank high, but lose because the other top teams had faster mini bots and could score tubes.

I could go on, but my point is that as competitions go on, most quals will have co-op points and power house teams will be able to outscore teams that rely on them.