On the Importance of the Backup Teams

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23-03-2010, 09:44

Peter Matteson Peter Matteson is offline

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Re: On the Importance of the Backup Teams

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Originally Posted by Nawaid Ladak

I also noticed something that might be very important once a team gets to Einstein regarding backup robots.

if a robot is incapability of operating on Einstein, the Division Champion's backup robot is.... the alliance caption of the finalist alliance!

obviously, the alliance with he backup robot would be upgraded and have a advantage on the opposing alliance

This hasn't been the rule since 2006. We figured this out too late to take advantage of it. The rule was changed following that season to be the random draft of a finalist for the exact reason you mentioned.

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