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 1/17/2000 3:49 AM MST


In Reply to: hey dan, i don't agree... and i'm looking for some feedback posted by Erin on 1/16/2000 10:41 AM MST:



I think we may be closer to agreement than you think. My team (GRT #192) had a very defensive strategy last year. We were seeded in the mid thirties. Our strategy was to play hard and win some matches solidly. We managed to win all of our 6 seeding matches. However as we were primarily defensive, our seed was low.

Also, I was always an advocate of rejections because I felt a 33rd seed team didn't necessarily not deserve the right to have some choice in partners just because it's 33rd, as it may be there for strategic reasons (i.e. defensive robot).

For the same reason, I see no problem with the 33rd seed taking the gold. However, a system that prematurely eliminates the possibility for some robots to be on the winning alliance is innately unfair. A system that doesn't allow the #1 seed to pair with the #2 is not a good system, as it could very well be forcing the second best robot to get a lower place than even the second pick of seed #1.

Does this make any sense? Maybe??
-DL