The Big Question

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Posted by Tony.

Student on team #292, PantherTech, from Western High School and DaimlerChrysler.

Posted on 7/16/99 12:51 PM MST


In Reply to: The Big Question posted by Mike on 7/15/99 11:23 PM MST:



If it was up to me, I'd eliminate alliances next year. The outcome
(or possible outcome, I should say) of the preliminary matches is
decided purely on luck. When we play with alliances, a team's
ability to communicate and its robot's abilities to do various things
have a lesser effect on the outcome of the match because you have to
'pool' the abilities of both teams on an alliance. If you have a string
of bad luck, you could have the best robot on the face of the earth
(in terms of capabilities) but still lose the match, because the
criteria of the match make it very hard for one robot to accomplish what
two can do in two minutes. If we do away with alliances, I feel it would
allow teams to independently show what their team has accomplished and
what their robot can do. I feel it's more fair this way

--Tony