Curie 2010!

[haye321]

Originally Posted by Karthik

Still a little tired and overwhelmed from the whole weekend, but I wanted to address the comments on Match 100 in this thread. The decision to play 6v0 was made solely by the alliance of 231, 288 and 1114. We never let 111, 469 and 888 in on our strategy. The goal of the match was to obtain as many seeding points as we possibly could. The 111, 469, 888 alliance was an Einstein quality group of teams. We decided that the chances of beating them were very slim. We spent a lot of time discussing potential strategies, but the 6v0 definitely looked to be the one that maximized our seeding points. All three teams agreed to this strategy, although I don't think any of us were 100% happy about. It definitely feels weird not playing to win. As for the blocking our own goals. We were concerned that our opponents would start scoring in the other direction to maximize their seeding points once they realized we were aiming for a 6v0. We knew that the time they spent scoring in our goals meant less time they were scoring in their own goals, hence less seeding points for us. Wow, just thinking about this makes my head spin.

Also, our alliance was not the only one who ran this type of strategy this weekend. Our opponents played 6v0 against us a couple times this weekend, once using the goal blocking strategy. All part of this very weird game.

It is my opinion that just because you find a hole in the ranking system doesn't mean you should go out and exploit it. You guys had an excellent robot (and you should be very proud) and I'm not entirely convinced that you would have lost. 469 was not unstoppable, we proved that in match #1 on Curie and 67, 177, and 294 proved it on Einstein. Regardless, if you had played the match out and lost, so be it...that's part of the qualification matches...sometimes you go up against hard teams. Just because you're given a tough match doesn't give you rights to take an unGP way to minimize casualties to ensure a 1st seed position. That being said its all in the past now, and hopefully the GDC will revisit their ranking system for next season. You guys were a formidable opponent and I am proud to have lost to an aliance of your caliber.