Talk:Front-Runner/@comment-26388545-20160503163253/@comment-27123099-20160503171214

I'm still convinced that lapping a car (or winning by X amount or average speed etc.), when it's part of the goal, does not greatly affect the bots for future events. You are still meeting the goal, which is the point of bot management, not to surpass a goal by too much. Well, lapping a car IS the goal in this case.

The one I had difficulty on was 4.1 since I had such a low goal from bot management on Stage 3 that I couldn't meet the average speed in such a short distance (without the oval for sure). So, I had to surpass the goal by 1mile in order to win. I still had the same bot (Propeller Factory) for the next race. So, even surpassing the goal by 1mile did not change which bot I faced the next time.

I did notice that by 4.4, I had a slightly more difficult bot to face (mintCrystal), but if that's what I get for beating these goals as I have, I'll take that, they are still easy bots. The bigger problem is going to be the fixed goals that FM likes to throw at us nowadays. It doesn't matter how much bot management you've done, we'll all still have to beat the same goal. For instance, on 4.3, we all had to beat 49.016 (from what I've seen) regardless of which bot we faced.