Re: Curie 2010!
 

I know that we're a happy team right now. After an entire build season of effort and drive, we finally got to see our looper in action with some good alliance partners. We started in the opponent's home zone, kicked two balls out in autonomous, just barely missed the third ball, crossed the hump and headed over to our tower and deployed our looping design features.

We locked our handcuffs to the tower, deployed our drawbridge with deflector and deployed our poptop. We got a chance to loop 7 balls throughout the game and we are just so happy to see our design realized and for it to perform like we designed it. :-) We have seen our kicker and possessor work for 17+ games now but finally got to see the looper system work. Qualifier 32 is my favorite game of ours right now.

Curie is turning out to be a fun division and we are looking forward to day 2. Good luck to all out there.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

no... i think its going to be archimedes

Re: Curie 2010!
 

Honestly Archimedes is going in History as the Division of Champs this year (it does have 1124 in it, which is enough for me to say that about Archimedes :D) but for me personally, Curie has most of the teams I want to see expect for one or 2, and so far has given me the type of matches I want to see.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

I watched that match, and loved it! Your looper is just so beautiful in action, with the curve!

Re: Curie 2010!
 

I think that Barry Bonzack should be announcer in Curie at least once. Just saying.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

I don't know, with all the attention on 1114 and 469 I have a feeling that someone is going to catch them by surprise. I don't know who or when, but it should be fun to watch as it plays out.
Good luck everyone

Re: Curie 2010!
 

With 469 seeded in the high 20's, I think they may be out of the running for #1 seed.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

I guess that team is 2169 so far.
We'll get a clearer picture after today.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

I haven't been able to watch the webcast yet. Can anyone tell me why 469 isn't seeding as high as expected? I know its early, and that things can change, but are teams playing more defense? Are they malfunctioning? Or are they just getting unlucky with their alliance partners?

I also know that, barring malfunctioning or an effective stopper strategy, it really doesn't matter where 469 seeds. As long as a strong offensive robot selects them, they'll go far.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

I've seen them having to pull out of looping position and play regular due to a lack of ammo a few times. Looks like they've run into some ball starvation D. Some of their alliance partners have also had bad matches.

Curie's had a lot of high scoring, close matches, so it's taking a lot of seeding points to get up in the top.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

On the webcast the audio is sorta messed up for Curie right now :(

Re: Curie 2010!
 

Holy $@#$@#$@#$@#, did you see match 100?

1114+469 6V0

Re: Curie 2010!
 

1114 goes 6v0 in match 100 against 469 and they score 32 balls!

The human players couldn't quite keep up so the 469 alliance picked up 3 DOGMA penalties.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

Well match 100 was certainly interesting. 29-0 (after 3 penalties) in the first true 6v0 I've seen.

Wow.

Re: Curie 2010!
 

32 scores intially, and a final score of 29!!!!! Amazing!!!! That for me was the match of the year.