Round Robin on Einstein

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by iCurtis

I assume you mean finalist? Wouldn't the champion be the same irregardless? That said, I think this model probably needs to tested before FIRST would adopt it. It's a pretty large change strategically, as scouting teams now need information on 3 other alliances, rather than one. I'd imagine that would create even more stress in what is already a stressful time.

It is hard to play someone you've never seen before. However, I don't think this is any worse then the current system in that regard.

You'd play one alliance in which you don't have any information. Before you had your second match, you'd see the other two alliances play, so you'd have information.

As long as the rotation was set a head of time, it shouldn't be a problem. In fact, with the current system, it seems like there is a lot of confusion over who plays who first.

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

I would figure many teams would do what SparX did in 2004 and 2006 when they were on Einstein. We would acquire scouting from other teams in each division on the robots coming form each division. So this change would not have much a problem for most teams that do this type of scouting.

We've done the same thing when we were on Einstein.