Kettering Kickoff FILLS with 36 Teams

[Courtneyb1023]

One of the downfalls 1-8 8-1 system, is when the regional only has 24ish teams, the 1st place alliance team will likely have to pick the statistically worst robot. This is kind of unfair because in some cases where the last place team does not even have a working robot, thus 1st place alliance is left playing with only 2 robots. All of that hard work with little chance of victory. Just a thought.

Courtney

[Billfred]

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Spoiler for Click to read if you'd like.:

Originally Posted by Courtneyb1023

One of the downfalls 1-8 8-1 system, is when the regional only has 24ish teams, the 1st place alliance team will likely have to pick the statistically worst robot.

Not necessarily; just the one the other seven alliances didn't choose for whatever reason. (968 and a radio-problem-plagued 254 didn't seem to do so terrible at the 24-team Cal Games last year when 1516, which by that point was stuck doing defense due to a shooter malfunction, became their third partner by default.)

Just another point of data.

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[Mark Pierce]

Less than 48 hours until Kettering Kickoff 2007.

Team 85 is loaded and ready to go. I'm looking forward to watching these great teams, getting to know the new kids on our team, and seeing all those FIRST folks we haven't seen in a while. This is going to be fun!