2008 Chesapeake Regional

[benhulett]

Our bot was good this year, but we were well, limited by our team mates in 3 of the 8 rounds.... I'm not saying they're bad, it's just that they got in the way of the objective, scored massive amounts of penalties, and blocked us (literally) from moving. We went from 4th to 32nd.... Which made me think about the ranking system that FIRST uses. I do not like the way robots are ranked based on their team mates performance. It's not fair that your robot is ranked upon the team winning. Example being, let's say you have a good bot, it's potential is limited by your team mates. Your rank goes WAY down. I thought that most of the teams had figured this out, and weren't judging by rank for alliance selection... But for alliance selection, only 2 teams outside of the top 24 were selected. Which leads me to believe that those top 8 bots simply looked at the score boards and picked whoever was in the top 24... :/

I'm just saying, the ranking system could be so much better.