A Recycle Rush Reflection

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Originally Posted by cgmv123

They specifically said they can change scoring values.

In 2013, the following was included in the manual

As competition at the FIRST Championship is typically different from that during the competition season, FIRST may alter the value of CLIMBING at the FIRST Championship by up to ten (10) points per Level.

There was a great deal of speculation that the incentive for climbing would be increased at Championship, but this did not materialize.

I think the incentives in Recycle Rush are overall more rational that the incentive for climbing was in Ultimate Ascent, so the chance of any score change happening is even lower. For that decision to make sense, the GDC would have to conclude that the benefits of making such a change would outweigh the backlash from teams who spent a season building and competing with a robot designed around the current incentive structure.