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Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber
You'd be surprised, history has shown that the average team is pretty bad at scoring. 20 points may be a decent amount to swing many matches. For example, a hang (2 pts) in 2010 would swing 29% of matches. A suspension and a hang would have changed 72%. (source: http://ewcp.org/blog/2011/12/06/2010-scoring-analysis/)
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My point exactly:
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"Only at the very high levels do you see robots that can guarantee 20 to 40 points per match. This robot is utterly fantastic, and the engineering and thought that went into it looks amazing. I wish I had thought of it, but hats off to 179!"
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Given the amount that 20 points is this year, I think these guys pretty much have a lock on the regional level, and can really only be competed with by the very high powerhouse level teams in scoring.