Re: Who has successfully THROWN ringers on to the rack yet?
 

For this reason, throwing ringers towards the rack when there are a good number of ringers already on the rack is quite dangerous! The reason is two ringers of the same color on the same spider leg equals no ringers on the spider leg!

To answer the question, I saw a total of probably 5 or 6 ringers scored by human players during GSR (practice matches, qualification matches, and elims). This is actually a pretty low percentage considering how many human players were trying this strategy. So, I would say less than 5% of the thrown ringers were successfully scored on the rack through the act of being thrown.

151 and 166 had the two most successful human players at GSR, in my opinion. Our team hasn't kept track of human player scoring this year, so I don't have any actual statistics.

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Team 166's player at GSR had a particularly consistent flat throw going. She obviously spent a lot of time practicing and the tubes tended not to tilt and veer off like most other throws seen.

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Our human player threw one onto the top spider leg to win our first qualifying match 4-2. He also managed to get a couple spoilers over the rack and into the opponents home zone.

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i accidentally landed a ringer on a spider that we already had a ringer on. It was one of the few times i got a tube on the rack, and it would've lost us points, but it was only a practice round

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At the Finger Lakes Regionals there was a human player from XQ robotics who in the FINAL MATCH in the first 10 seconds of Operator Controlled mode threw one on the top row..everyone was on their feet screaming..opposing team and all. It was INSANE..a ton of cameras got it and there must be a clip somewhere..

There were alot of throwing tubes on in the practice rounds and such, but most teams didn't in the finals due to danger of double ringer-ing..(?) a tube.

If someone has that clip..please post!

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Our human player has thrown a few on. In one match, he threw one on a ringer that was already scored thus accidently canceling that row.

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This weekend in Milwaukee I saw a few HP score. I also saw a row of 5 get cut in half. The robots had 5 blue ringers on the middle rack. Then the HP threw a great shot. It landed on the middle spider that already had a blue ringer. So the score fell from 2^5 = 32 to 2^2 + 2^2 = 8 OUCH!

Be careful out there... Throw early and throw well.

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One of our human players got four on at the FLR regional... his first match out he got one on then he got another... unfortunatly he scored same place so we didnt get points for either lol, and the second time he got it on making the score 4 to 2 in our favor =) third time we didnt win though.

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We managed to throw a ringer onto the rack during a qualifying match when our robot was broken. It was the only ringer scored for our alliance that match. We lost though :(

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612's human player practiced for 6 weeks on his throw

he can even do a 360 and throw it
he scored one like that on our rack at the school

maybe he can do it at Chesapeake!

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Our HP (Brannden) got consistently 1 in every match, we thought it would be cool if one of our Marketing guys actually did something in the match (I'm lead Marketing and the Mascot). Its amazing that some people get more then 1 in every match!

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Our HP scored 4 times on the rack. He was able to get one during practice, 1 the first day and 2 the second day. When he threw the ringer on the rack the first day, that gave us a 4 to 2 lead (That ended up being the final score) with 20 seconds left. He was so ecstatic that he almost jumped out of the designated area. That wouldn't have been good.

Also during the finals, our 2 alliance partners (1450 and 1713) threw 3 ringers on in 2 games.

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the closest thing I've ever seen was a human player throw a tetra onto the top of the rack and have it bounce/fall through the inner spiders all the way to the bottom.

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In the 1st of our 2 finals matches at St Louis, our human player scored a ringer early in the match.