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Originally Posted by Mike Martus
My answer is NO!
It messes with my mind...
We win 3 matches in a row we drop 15 spots....... we lose 1 match and we jump up..... hmmmmm it is better to lose then to win in many cases.
Something is just not right here..... Cooperatition leads to a boring set of qualifying matches....... some teams are starting to see.... if you are loosing the match then score for the winner you are points ahead for your team overall.
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I second this.
[Michigan Specific Rant]
Compounding this if you win and go down you decrease your chance of picking (which is worth X points for qualifying for MSC) but increase your overall points by some amount smaller than X, Y. If you lose you raise your ranking increasing your chances of picking (X) but sacrificing the chance to gain Y for sure. Since when did a robotics competition come with opportunity cost?
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Coupling this with the massive amount of penalties being racked up just by playing the game and FIRST may as well have renamed the Qualification Matches "Demonstration Matches" and then picked 8 random Alliance Captains.*
I've read the rule book, I competed with 2 teams at a competition, and I STILL have barely a clue how this thing works. What chance does a random spectator have? This game could have been awesome but the sheer number of penalties and a wonky ranking algorithm is making it so that spectators have no idea what is going on.
*To anyone who was an Alliance Captain last weekend, you guys played the game as written and came out on top. Good job, you earned it. I am disagreeing with the rules of the game not your ability or skill.
And like Woodie told us in his talk, all the bad stuff we anguished over will be replaced by the memories of the achievements and good time we had this year. - Wayne C. [more] 
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