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Posted by Chris.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.

Posted on 3/15/2000 6:47 AM MST


In Reply to: My read of FIRST folks... posted by Joe Johnson on 3/14/2000 6:34 PM MST:



I think this year's game has definitely helped getting all of the teams to talk to each other and get along well. However, I still have a major problem with the game:

My problem is that the qualification game and the elimination game are almost two different games (even though the rules are the same). Robots that do well qualifying may be bad elimination teams and teams that are great elimination teams may be very poor qualifiers. (This was also true last year, but to a smaller extent).

It seems to me that the qualification rounds should determine the teams that are the best elimination teams. This is especially true due to the alliance selection process. Regardless of what anyone says, reputation is still more important than reality. This causes many more deserving teams to be passed upon so that teams with a bigger reputation can be picked. This kind of bothers me. (I guess whenever humans are selecting teams, this is going to happen - see UNC in this year's NCAA tourney.)

The one thing I can say is that I can see how FIRST wants to emphasize offense. However, if that is the case I would prefer to scrap the eliminations and do a modified round robin tournament. In this scenario, the teams are divided into small groups that play a round robin. The team with the most Q.P.'s in each group at the end advances. All of the advancing teams then get broken up into groups again and another round robin is played. The most Q.P.'s advances again. Eventually, you will have a winner. This scenario would be a logistical nightmare, but at least it keeps the game the same through the entire competition.