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Re: Any human player stategies?

Our Human Player certainly made a huge contribution to the success of 525 at the Greater Kansas City Regional this weekend in both qualification and elimination matches. Check out some video from MORE.net (qualification semi-finals 1 was high score for entire regional).

Our player, who is wellover 6 ft tall, grips the game pieces with 2 hands from the very corner and throws backwards. we call it the "French Fling" as he is an exchange student from France.

He was able to put gamepieces in the safe zone with amazing accuracy. Note that he had practiced this technique for may weeks and we knew that it was a big part of our plan for success this year. The circles travel the most predictably and furthest but with proper release the triangle and square generally end up where we or our alliance parnters could quickly pick them up.

We also used placards to let the human players know which gamepiece was required.

By the end of the regional several other human players were using the "French Fling".
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