Picker Or Pickee

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Posted by Daniel.

Coach on team #483, BORG, from Berkeley High School and NASA Ames & UC Berkeley.

Posted on 1/10/2000 1:47 PM MST


In Reply to: down on the list of worries... posted by Joe Johnson on 1/9/2000 7:29 PM MST:



Joe, I agree.

However, I think FIRST agrees too, so they added rule SC-something (sorry don't have the rule book with me). A robot gets to drop its lowest scoring QM. Yay! You get one free fluke!

I think it's a good start. Considering the larger amount of matches to begin with, being able to drop one of the couple flukes you may have makes me feel better. Last year, GRT did really well at the cali regional but would have seeded even better if it could have dropped it's zero point round. That round was before the drivers had figured out how the robot worked. $@#$@#$@#$@# happens, yes?

Lastly, it doesn't MATTER what your seed is. If people know you have a good bot you WILL get picked because teams tend to research their top 10 or 15 picks. Even with that fluke of a match for GRT, we were picked by the number one seed -- they looked PAST that. So you see, the majority of good teams will get a shot at the trophy.


-DL


PS - remember that teams can pick other robots in the top 16 seeds so you don't loose your chance at being the first to pick anymore. You could get picked first! So the puzzle all fits together.