Championship 2010 - Atlanta - Your Thoughts Please?

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Originally Posted by E. Wood

I believe that it is not fair to these team to allow open bids to the same event. In my opinion this can lower the over quality of many of the matches and often leads to one sided alliances (1 good robot with little or no help against two or three good robots) in the qualifiers. If one team happens to get unlucky enough to have many of these match they are all but out of the running to get a seeded position no matter how good they are.

I disagree about no open bids to champs.
My example; my team had not won either of the two regionals we went to and we hadn't necessarily done amazingly, but we still paid our way to champs.
At champs, we were on Curie, and in our last match were against 1114 (and others). We very nearly bested them. We would've won if there hadn't been DOGMA's. On the way back to the pits, on of the 1114 drivers said to us that they hadn't expected to have to really fight for that match.

point is, we were able to do really well (against all odds) even though we didn't "earn our way in" to champs.