Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[CJ_Elliott]

Originally Posted by Jon Stratis

Just a few details on the MN State Ranking system. It is based on the district system, with a couple of modifications. To encourage teams to pursue chairman's, points are awarded for that submission. And since most teams in MN only do one event, we just recognize the team's first event for points. This is the same for districts - every team there does two events, so they recognize the first two,

First. Eight matches is not enough to show the quality of a team's robot. Plain and simple. I get that for many teams, one regional is the only 8 matches that they can play all season and I respect the hell out of those teams. State is set up is that a robot can have communications issues that they can't control for the first 7 of the 8 matches they play and not move, and on the 8th match give a show and properly represent their robot. They then can go on and get overlooked and not make it to state even though they could be one of the best robots at the tournament.

Second. People have no opportunity to improve or learn from their mistakes. Last year there were a ton of teams that I saw improve between their first and second regionals. Now this is great for qualifying for worlds. But it isn't helpful at all when it comes to state. I get that everyone is not on the same level and I respect that. But you can't go from 2 totes on the field to 3 stacks of 6 in 8 matches.

Third. We did have some flaws in our strategy when it came down to what our robot did. But I don't think blaming the game is the way to properly approach this. I like this game. If we played the game to score more than the other alliance and overlooked placement, then that's on us even if we didn't catch it.

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Nick,
Do you know of any other sport in Minnesota that has two championships? The State League is not as simple as you like to think.

Al,
Do you know of any other sport in the World that has two championships?