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Re: Pre-Championship Musings from JVN 2011

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Originally Posted by JVN
If all the minibots (at the elite level) are within tenths of a second of each other... what will make the difference? Who triggers first? Who gets a small head-start that a referee doesn't see? Which tower has a slippery spot? A straight up minibot race has turned into somewhat of a coin-flip. You'd better hope your minibot doesn't hiccup at the wrong moment and send you home early. Scary, isn't it? I mean... we're fighting for tenths of a second. If your pit crew tweaks something accidentally and adds a bit of drag to a shaft, it could cost you a race, it could cost you the Championship...
Yep, very scary - and the biggest reason (among many others) that I am just not a fan of this years' minibot challenge.
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