A novel strategy: Always score for your opponents

[pfreivald]

Originally Posted by Johnny

Your team benefitted from the "broken" system and received a ton of ranking points for it.

We didn't, actually. One 6v0 game resulted in not enough qualifying points to change our overall seed early on Friday, and the other benefited us not at all.

Our second-to-last was a 6v0, and we got 11 points -- but so did our alliance partners (one of whom was seeded higher than us at the time), and so did our opponents (two of whom were seeded higher than us at the time). We were excited to have the 3rd and 6th seeded teams against the 4th and 5th, and were very disappointed that they essentially chose not to play. The strategy was used against us as a way to keep us at sixth -- below the other three. (The other two teams involved were out of the running at that point anyway.) All it really did was maintain the status quo... but we had one more game to play than either of those three teams did.

Our last match (Q74, the last qualifying match of the regional) was a hard-fought, all-out-on-both-sides 10-8 victory, netting us 26 qualifying points in one fell swoop and launching us into first place with 118 overall QPs.

So no, gentlemen, I reject the notion that we benefited from the overall strategy of this broken system. (And by the way I do agree with those who think that the system is broken... IF people choose to play it that way.) We benefited from having a great robot and a lot of hard-fought games.

Patrick