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Roaming Robots, Winter Tour
Win =5 Draw=3 Lose=1 sounds fairer to me. Should it be a requirement to be mobile at the end to claim this point? Or maybe a bonus point for surviving the bout? My thinking on suggesting a point for a loss was to prevent a scenario where someone with a lot of wins early on could sit on their laurels for the rest of the series safe in the knowledge that they had qualified for the final. Whilst it may just maintain a bit of interest throughout the tour, that final point for a loss is unlikely to have a major effect at the end of the day. The number of fights a losing machine can achieve in one day should be irrelevant, over the 6 events every point gained for losing a fight is in fact a loss of 2 or 4 points(depending on the scoring system adopted) that you could have gained if you had taken your sole chance to beat that opponent later on in the tour.
My thinking on forfeits for non working machines would tend to be that the lack of ability to put a working machine in the arena should be penalised. The best machine in the world is worthless if it wont run ;(
1 on 1 for the main comp is best IMHO, it allows more focus on the battle in hand and individual driving skills to come more to the fore, plus it is much easier to call cease if you stand to sustain unacceptable damage if you have a single opponent who is stood alongside you. Surely the need to load/unlaod just 2 machines should keep things happening for the audience more consistently as well?
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Tim Jones
Win =5 Draw=3 Lose=1 sounds fairer to me. Should it be a requirement to be mobile at the end to claim this point? Or maybe a bonus point for surviving the bout? My thinking on suggesting a point for a loss was to prevent a scenario where someone with a lot of wins early on could sit on their laurels for the rest of the series safe in the knowledge that they had qualified for the final. Whilst it may just maintain a bit of interest throughout the tour, that final point for a loss is unlikely to have a major effect at the end of the day. The number of fights a losing machine can achieve in one day should be irrelevant, over the 6 events every point gained for losing a fight is in fact a loss of 2 or 4 points(depending on the scoring system adopted) that you could have gained if you had taken your sole chance to beat that opponent later on in the tour.
My thinking on forfeits for non working machines would tend to be that the lack of ability to put a working machine in the arena should be penalised. The best machine in the world is worthless if it wont run ;(
1 on 1 for the main comp is best IMHO, it allows more focus on the battle in hand and individual driving skills to come more to the fore, plus it is much easier to call cease if you stand to sustain unacceptable damage if you have a single opponent who is stood alongside you. Surely the need to load/unlaod just 2 machines should keep things happening for the audience more consistently as well?
Regards
Tim Jones
. (It was 3 points for a win, 2 for second, 1 for third, providing each robot was involved in the fight to start with, 1 point was always awarded.) Simple. But, no. We were thought of as only having won as we had had more fights than anyone else. The actuality was yes, we did have more fights, we had five. And scored 12 points. Big Nipper was the only robot to have had four fights and scored 6. Crustacean came second in the oompetition, having scored 8 with only three fights. Even if only our first three fights counted (to equal Crustaceans) we would have been on an equal score. But as were were playing by the original rules, we ultimatly won fair and square.
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