Whoops, I missed a ‘NOT’ in that post.
It’s been proposed several times by several individuals, but something like the district point system but for regionals. Winning a regional as 3rd and 4th robot would help but probably wouldn’t automatically qualify them for the championship.
One thing that people forget about four-team alliances is that discussion about who to play can get heated. On all three of our championship alliances, we’ve had at least one disagreement with our captain about who should play in what match. While all of those teams were civil and respectful in working it out, these discussions can get hairy and I don’t think thrusting these decisions on every alliance at every event is a great idea, especially if Championship qualification were to become a factor.
As for the main topic of the thread, teams struggle enough to make a good pick #24. The average team that doesn’t have a strong scouting team is going to have a hard time composing a 47 team long picklist.
If you look at the 2nd alliance in 2016 FIM District Champs, 1718 who was a top team that year and got past up all the way back to the second alliance. Even though 1718 broke in the finals due to some mechanical failure, that alliance was unmatched. When FIM District Champs switch to 4 divisions, the scouting is consistent with a regular district event. Now we really don’t see the stacked alliances like we saw in 2016. Plus when it comes to the 4 division winners to play, its hard to tell who will win or lose.
2016 FIM District Winners 2nd Alliance
27: 1 District Win(1st Pick, 1st Alliance), 2 District Finalists(Both as Captain, 1st Alliance & 7th Alliance)
67: 2 District Wins(Both as Captain, 1st Alliance)
1718: 1 District Win(1st Pick, 1st Alliance), 1 District Finalist(1st Pick, 2nd Alliance)
6086: Quarter Finalist(Captain, 2nd Alliance), Semi-Finalist (1st Pick, 2nd Alliance)
Also in the 4 divisions, each division gives out their own awards, so there are 4 quality awards, 4 engineering excellence awards, etc. More teams are recognized for their work and achievements unlike the round of 16 which had 1 of each award.
Didn’t battlecry use to have a single match round of 16 (before moving to a “round robin” round of 16 this year?
When I was there in 2016 (and I think 2017+18 too), there were 20 alliances with random second picks. Each alliance played two “eighth finals” matches, and the eight alliances with the highest scores advanced to a bracket of eight.
After scoring 250 in our first eighth final, we basically gave up on trying to win the second one so we could focus on tuning our vision (we still won because 195 was on our alliance). It wasn’t my favorite competition setup.
During the finals of the Carson subdivision, the 2nd seed alliance subbed out their alliance captain (5050) while their 1st pick (111), 2nd pick (4607) and 3rd pick (2052) went on to beat the 1st seed alliance. It’s not common for the backup robot to be better than the captain, but it’s not impossible.
On Carson last year the 71-1640-5254-422 alliance subbed out 71 as well. Might just be a Carson thing.
In 1999, 2000, and 2002-2004, qualification matches were played 2v2, but elimination alliances were still 3 teams. In essence, it was somewhat similar to today’s 4 team alliances at Championship, except there was a requirement that each team on an alliance has to play a match in each round. So the team that was “benched” in the first quarter-final match was required to be on the field in the second.
The change from 2 team to 3 team alliances was mostly aimed at qualification matches rather than the elimination tournament. Having 6 teams on the field at a time rather than 4 teams meant that there were 50% more matches per team in the same amount of total matches played across an event, and was a factor in helping raise the qualification mathces played in each regional event. While the matches played in most 2005 regionals still pale to the matches played at most events today, the switch helped push it from the 6-7 qualification matches per team that teams were getting in 2004 to the 8-9 qualification matches per team that teams were getting in 2005-2008.
As has been discussed in other threads, point systems and 4-team alliances tend not to work very well together.
That comment is strictly about big regional events and not about champs.
The counter example would be a regional with an undrafted team being better than the captain or first pick of the finalist alliance.
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