Chief Delphi - #teamtether club

After volunteering & working (I will emphasize work, because resetting this game is real work...my hat is off to all who choose to do so too, as that is a crazy amount of game pcs!), at the Las Vegas Regionals this weekend, and I'm very sore, and popping a few Advil right now.

The #TeamTether dynamic duo (148, but really more like a trio w/ 987 added again)...Congrat's to all of them again on their Big Win, along w/ their 3rd. Alliance partner 5012, they all were a very tough hill to attempt to even climb. (Thanks to 3309 & 4322 for even attempting that feat w/ our team today)....After the final semi match, it gave all a slight bit of hope, it just wasn't to be today...But, we will see all at The Championships soon enough as all 6 qualified and were invited to do so, by wins, prestigious awards, or wildcards.

(My only wish was that there had been a matchup -in either practice or qualifying, where the 3 teams could have played just once together as 1-2-3 seeds....Just to see how many points the quad could have racked up together, as a few others, were lucky enough to do during the event.

Even though it was certainly a lot of work for the field reset team (and the Refs and others all participating and sharing the huge load), watching 148~60 take out the entire backfield once, was very fun to watch from the sidelines (only the empty very lonely lidless litter container was left behind along w/ the bare carpet), along w/~991 munching totes from the landfill to put up 208 in Q36 (also answered by 3577~2478~1828w/ 114 points of their own for a total match score of 322).

148/987/ came very close to doing the very same thing a few matches later in Q49. (leaving only 2 very lonely totes in the backfield, 1 in the chute, 1 on the carpet below the chute). And of course a lonely litter container filled above the brim w/ litter.

I also noticed that there was something a few have crafted as an artform to emulate the tethered ramp, only without the tether (No, it wouldn't be Robin ~Trusty friend of the other caped crusader Batman (and their other trusty friends The High Rollers, and whoever else will help out), who stacks as one delivers, and also accomodates a partners robot too, by allowing the early stack steal).

But, a single upside down grey or yellow tote very properly & carefully placed, directly under the tote chute parallel to the Tote Chute wall, is at the perfect height & angle w/ nice rounded smooth slick edges.

And the totes slide out smoothly bottom down, and flat on the carpet. (*So, don't waste those upsidedown tote mistakes either, just create a ramp w/ them if you are a bottom stacker! And go make some really sweet tall stacks.)

Kudos to those that found another different solution post robot build, to a sometimes very tough backfield HP to-field tote delivery system.