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[Bkeeneykid]

Originally Posted by rtfgnow

We are way off topic so this is going to be my last post on your proposal.

I suggest you create a table with the following columns:

Independent 1: Outcome of SF1/3
Independent 2: Outcome of SF2/4
Dependent 1: Is SF5/6 played?
Dependent 2: what alliances become finalists
Dependent 3: If D1 is no and D2 includes TF2 (I'm not 100% sure this is possible), how do you make things fair for TF1/3?

Another question: What if TF2 plays hard in matches 1 and 3 but doesn't try (maybe even doesn't field a robot) for matches 2/4?

First, here's that table:

SF1	SF2	D1:	D2: Finalists
TF1	TF2	Not	TF1,TF2
TF2	TF2	Yes	TF2,SF5
TF1	TF3	Not	TF1.TF3
TF2	TF3	Not	TF2,TF3

In response to Dependent 3, this is where SF5 comes in. If TF2 wins both, they go to SF5. If they win only one of their Semi Final matches, they still are on the finalist alliance, but the winning team on the other semi final match goes into finals.

In responce to your other question, I feel that would be going against Gracious Professionalism. If they are not completely sure that they would win the other semi final match, this would not be a viable strategy. I would say if they refuse to field a robot on one of their semi final matches, they would be punished by forfeiting all semi final matches. In this case, the finalists would be TF1 and TF3.