Thread: Team Update #18
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Re: Team Update #18

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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
I'd like to offer another perspective on this....

We have a mediocre HOSTBOT that designed and built itself, without any effort on our part. It can play at the 90th percentile at an "easy" regional.

A couple of times during our matches, our HOSTBOT had a GAME PIECE right there ready to HANG, but the darn PEG dodged out of the way, and the GAME PIECE fell to the floor.

I wonder if we should have received points in that situation?
You wouldn't get any points, but I'm pretty sure the match would be replayed due to a field malfunction. In fact, that was one of Adam's suggestions.
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