we ditched the pumpkin tubes because unless you happen to have a perfect alliance with 2 great minibots and another robot that can score tubes very well, it's not worth it. it was a 12 point swing vs. a (potentially) 30 point minibot...and the one time we tried to hang it after we deployed, we got red-carded for incidentally touching a deploying robot with our spear, so for the immense risk, it wasn't worth it. i just started telling our human players not to throw it out.
i would also like to thank 191 and 1518 for a great time. our alliance was great and it all came down to less than a half of a second there with minibots. congrats to 1559, 610, and 578. those were some of the toughest matches i've ever played, for sure.
it was a pleasure to build the second robot for 3951, and we were plenty glad to help out. it gave them a jump start, and helped us train a lot of our rookies through constructing it! and of course, it was nice to see a little more flashing color on the field
as garrick said, that was an awesome last ruckus as a student! if i can help it, i'll be back next year, maybe even as a volunteer! thanks to everyone who made this a great success. and the D&C article about FIRST is great, i always love to see more publicity! thanks to all teams that came, it was a blast and i hope to see many of you at FLR with our new game!