drawer / Competition & Game
QualsRandomly-scheduled matches that determine each team's seeding/ranking at an event.
also calledQual matchQuals
where you actually meet Quals
Quals are randomly scheduled, so you play with and against teams of every skill level and your ranking measures how well you play with strangers. That is the practical case for ranking-point strategy: since your partners are assigned, the things you control — your own consistency and the bonus objectives — matter far more to your seed than raw scoring does.
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Competition & Game
Points earned from match outcomes and bonus objectives that determine a team's qualification ranking.
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The elimination bracket after qualifications; FRC uses a double-elimination format among the alliance captains' picks.
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Systematically collecting data on robots' performance to inform strategy and alliance-selection decisions.
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A group of three teams that play together on the red or blue side of a match.
read the entryQualification Match is one of 70 entries in the catalogue. The guides are where these words get used in order, instead of one at a time.