Soooo just some thoughts

Originally Posted by benhulett

I have also thought about that. But when your matched against 3 extremely high scoring robots, and you have two extremely low scoring robots, how can your rely on your robot to win that match. You'd have to have an extremely powerful robot with an extremely experienced team. This is hard to come by. I do understand that the entire idea behind this competition is teamwork, but in a way you have to rely on your team mates. My point isn't to have a single robot based game, I'm saying that the ranking system in itself relies too heavily on the outcome of the match rather than a mix of performance of your bot, and the outcome of the match. IE, let's say you do 60% of the scoring in the match. Your other team mates do the other 40%. Yes you've done a fantastic job!! Awesome! But when you look at the ranks, you've all gone down nearly the same amount. What you've just done has no impact other than the fact that you lost overall. This really made our team feel like crap.

Winning isn't what scouting teams see. A good scouting system will analyze how YOU play the game, how many times YOU score, how YOU drive, and nothing else. Honestly, most of the high power teams have such a complex scouting algorithm set up, it's pretty impressive to see how it all works out. If your robot can perform, then make it do so; you'll be chosen if you can actually score, and score well.

About the rankings: They don't mean much. If you're good, you will be chosen. The high ranked teams usually have complex scouting systems, and so if you perform, you'll get picked for elims. If not, you won't. It's that simple.


As for my previous post, yes, it is fairly insulting. However, by "do everything," I'm trying to get across that the bots that you will see winning have more capabilities then the ones that you will see losing. Taking last year as an example, teams like Jesters, 254/968, and other very strong teams could do everything, and well, won.

I'm not calling every robot that fails to do all game aspects a total failure. If you'll read again what I said, you need to do whatever you do, or everything you do, on your own, without help.