1st Order Sort is qualification Score
2nd Order Sort is Cumulative Sum of ASSIST points
That makes assists even more of a priority. Maybe not for the top teams, but those in 4-10th usually are bunched close together on qualification score.
We were thinking the same thing.
FIRST really wants teams to work together this year…
Keep in mind that Autonomous score is the 3rd order of seeding, in the event that the assists are lacking, or simply equally frequent among most teams.
The official quote from the manual, for reference.
I have a quick question regarding the sorting points.
The QP are given per alliance, meaning if you team is in a winning alliance you get 2 QP etc.
What about ASSIST points? If in the red alliance robot 1 does assist in blue, robot 2 does assist in red and scores, who gets ASSIST points?
The ASSIST points for this move are 10 (+10 GOAL points), do only team 1 and 2 get the points? Does robot 3 gets it too?
Same question for TRUSS, CATCH, GOAL… I’m assuming the same answer.
The assist points are tracked on a per-alliance basis, so the alliance’s total assist points are given to each team on the alliance.
Gottcha. Thanks!