Posted by Joe Johnson. [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]
Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.
Posted on 3/29/2000 8:44 AM MST
Has anyone else noticed that FIRST has not published where teams finished other than the #1 (Champs) & the #2 (Finalists)?
Usually, they publish a list of 1 through 8 of who finished where (prior to the alliance format, they used to publish 1 through 10 places).
While you can argue about whether this or that semi-finalist deserves 3rd or 4th place or what type of measure should be used to judge between them, it would at least be nice to know which teams WERE semi-finalists.
Is this going to be a new policy of FIRST? I hope not. I hope that they will decide to at least list the teams as octo-finalists, quarter-finalists, semi-finalists, finalists and champion.
As to judging between the various octo, quarter & semi finalists, I would argue that all the octo-finalists are 9th place finishers, all the quarter-finalists are 5th place finishers, and all the semi-finalists are 3rd place finishers.
Any other thoughts?
Joe J.