Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery (Post 1592798)

Not sure how I forgot this one in my previous post. The 137-133 match at IRI in 2006. In my opinion, the greatest match of FRC ever played.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7fep3iJ5e8

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber (Post 1592825)

At 2:23 in this video the volunteer with the pole on the blue goal knocks out a ball.

Originally Posted by Mitchell1714 (Post 1592833)

2012 Lake Superior, Qualification Match 81

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dxV...ie_zW&index=11

Teams 1714, 2169 and 3018 were randomly paired together in quals 81. These same three robots would all later be on the #1 alliance and win the regional. As far as I know, this is the only time a whole alliance played together in a qualification match and those same 3 robots went on to win the event.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery (Post 1592826)

Watching Big Mike try his hardest with the pokey stick to keep the balls moving as 71 and 1625 fill the goal is pretty hilarious. The lessons learned from 2006 were definitely incorporated into some future shooting games, regarding balls getting jammed in goals and the implementation of automatic ball counting.

But no impact on the match, it came out of the winning alliances' goal.

Originally Posted by Chris is me (Post 1592621)

Basically, the formula for seeding did not factor in wins or losses directly. The winning alliance would get their score + 2 times the loser's score + 5 points. The losing alliance would get the winning alliance's score. If you know you are going to lose a match for sure, scoring in the correct goal is actually the least productive thing you can do - it helps your opponents tremendously and doesn't help you at all.

The other half of the equation for the 1114 6v0 match was the particular teams involved. 111 and 1114 spent the entire weekend jockeying for the #1 seed. They were basically tied for #1 seed at the time. If 1114 played a hard fought match against 111 and 469 and lost, it would guarantee that 111 seeded above 1114, which would basically guarantee 111 advanced to Einstein. By playing the 6v0 match, 1114 ensured that 111 would only get 5 more ranking points than them in the worst case scenario. 1114's alliance partners needed to block their own goals in order to prevent 111 from scoring on themselves to boost their ranking.

This match was a "hostile 6v0" in that 1114 did not collude with the opposing alliance before the match, and actively hindered their efforts to seed higher, so you can't say this is "throwing a match". This is the strategy that would give the 1114 alliance the most seeding points, while denying the most seeding points possible to the opposing alliance.

If that makes your head hurt, you weren't alone. The ranking system was among the very best at actually ranking teams based on quality, but it sure did cause some headaches.

Originally Posted by anishde (Post 1592848)

Would this happen to be the highest scoring match (for one alliance) of the season?

Originally Posted by EricH (Post 1592832)

Now if I could just remember the match and event...

2008: FRC27 shoots DIAGONALLY from the corner to seal a win via hurdle. Might have been GLR (this was before districts, folks), and I want to say it was elims. Anybody have a better memory than I do on this one?

Originally Posted by RoboChair (Post 1592648)

Shameless self promotion here.

2014 Inland Empire Regional Finals 2 1678, 399, 4161
First perfect cycle. Second perfect cycle, back-to-back. Not sure if it's the only double perfect cycle. Was done after our ball settling mechanism was crippled and repaired back into place with a c-clamp.
https://youtu.be/dhY_p3qhSkY?t=1m25s

2016 Central Valley Regional Quarter 1-1 1678, 254, 3970
Crowd was not expecting us to be able to extend our arm AND fire with a defender parked in front of us.
https://youtu.be/i5c9Z6G7xjU?t=1m19s