Are 8 play regional reasonable?

[Alan Anderson]

Originally Posted by Isaac Ash

...students want to see their robot do well.

That implies that students do not want to see their robot do poorly, right?

A robot that does not perform well is not a robot those students want to see playing in a match. If a team has such a robot, for whatever reason, then more matches is not automatically a good thing.



I admit that I'm giving arguments that go against something that I personally believe: playing more matches is an appropriate goal. But I don't think I'm doing it just for the sake of arguing. I am honestly trying to answer people who seem to be asking why everyone else doesn't wholeheartedly agree that an 8-match schedule is a priori unacceptable.