Re: Human Player
 

Our HP is a very good HP. I didn't realize how hard it would be to get them into the side goals. I'm a mentor and a the preship event I decided to try it and I found out that it has to be bounced or landed at center court and then roll in. We kept track of how many our HP scored. For 3 regionals combined, he was able to score 100 pts. himself. That's a lot or points for one person. Like previously said above I don't see the HP being that important unless you have to load from the HP, or throw balls on the field for your robot to collect.

Re: Human Player
 

I don't think it matters so much how well your human player is, but rather how well it adapts to benefit each and every human player on your team, for instance the triplets this year had a great hopper which worked amazingly well for throwing balls into, even if you were terrible at it... another think I've noticed, it the more human involvement a team puts into a match, the more they have been to win, as after all at this point there is very few areas were machines can do basic things better then humans... just my thoughts

Re: Human Player
 

well out hp basically won the regional for our individual team....let me elaborate--->our camera was knocked out in the rubber match of the Finger Lakes Finals and our teammates 229 and 1567 were doing the best they could (which was good) against a stong number 2 alliance headed by the x-cats, we won by a small margin. And of course me being as crazy as i am asked our teammates in a frantic panic "How many did you score!!!" and "How many did they score!!!" and i realized that the final ramp climb by 1567 might have pushed us over then my HP (Bill a.k.a. "Cash Money") came up to me and said "oh yeah I also got like 4 shots in the low goal." i was pumped. So i guess for us our HP was essential. Not only being a clutch player he also was very consistant and through out the regional scored probably 1-3 goals as an average and a high of like 7 or so. In the overall scheme of things it probably didnt make a huge impact but i guess what i am trying to say is that the HP was an essential part of our team and will remain an essential part of our team.