Today and yesterday at the Oregon Regional we were also pondering this year's bizarre seeding system. We noticed at least one match in which an entire alliance appeared to have coordinated to shoot into only the opposing alliance's goals. Initially we were baffled, until we looked more closely at the rules. Then we saw the brilliance and counterintuitiveness of this system.
Unfortunately, we didn't think to do this until after all of the qualification matches were over, but teams at later regionals may find this useful. We wrote a LabVIEW VI which displays the raw score and seeding score for each alliance, based on the number of points and penalties input for each color.
The source code, a compiled EXE (requires labview installed) and a full installer (does not require labview installed) are available on our team website. Below is a screenshot. Hopefully some teams can find this useful for the subsequent weekends. It would be really awesome if someone figured out a way to build this into a custom dashboard, so that during the game players could see where to shoot to get optimal points. If anyone does anything super awesome like that, please let us know; we'd love to hear about it!
(Isn't it weird? The red alliance scored 8 points and got 2 penalties. The blue alliance scored nothing. And yet the blue alliance got more seeding points.)
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07-03-2010, 03:02
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