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Re: Championship 2008 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please

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As far as the number of qualification rounds go, they are definitely not even close to the number needed. The rankings are off because there are not enough matches.
there are 85 teams, and the most number of teams that you get to play with/against is 35 teams.

I am not sure if this would be practical, but at least for the championship, it would be extremely beneficial if Wednesday was the practice day and there were two qualification days, and Saturday had less quals and more time for eliminations.


Just my personal opinion,
I don't like the randomness of the competition, If we redo the championship 10 times, 10 different alliances will win, and no matter how good a robot is, you need some luck to win.
I don't like seeing hundreds of hours spent by students and mentors not being recognized because of the randomness.
As long as there are alliances there will be randomness. Even if you play with and against every team in every possible combination there will still be luck involved. If a good robot is broken when they play with you you will move down due to luck; if instead they are broken when you play against them you will move up due to luck. Will the luck factor be reduced with more matches, probably, but can you ever eliminate it, definitely not.

This is true in nearly every competition, it takes a lot of skill and a little bit of luck (and sometimes lots of luck) to come out on top.
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