Rule 8.4.1

[Shu Song]

I totally approve of this new system. Looks like this forum does have some baring on what FIRST does (I should post suggestions here more often).

The spirit of FIRST is not to have a dominating alliance that just steam-rolls over all the other alliances. Plus that doesn't make for a very fun game to watch come finals.

I concede that in the real world, you should get rewarded for hard work. 1st place is earned, and I respect that. This is the basis of pure capitalism, where the hard working are heavily rewarded, and the government doesn't impede at all on the economy. But even our own economy is not purely capitalistic, we have welfare, social security, anti-trust laws and so on to even out the playing field so everyone has a chance. Let's face it, all the teams do not start out on a level playing field.

So this is FIRST's way of evening out the playing field and I see nothing wrong with that.