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Originally Posted by dellagd
The pushpins:
If they had only put three pushpins on there, I would think that a red, yellow, and blue pin represent a new alliance, but the fact that they put a fourth red one on throws me off. If they really wanted to convey that idea, why not just leave out a pushpin? It doesnt make since to me, and has me wondering why there are two red...
The time of the screenshot:
3 minutes in? Probably a longer match, including a longer auton period. Why? Because they want the kinect to be more part of the game this year. A longer auton would mean utilizing your sensors correctly is even more important than before. Plus, if they lowered the match time for teleop, people would probably get mad, so they increased the game time.
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I think this is the most likely scenario.
I can't see 3 alliances happening. I think that's a false lead, and the 4th pushpin implies otherwise.
After thinking about it, I'm almost positive that your second point is correct. Currently matches are 2 minutes 15 seconds long, with a 15 second hybrid period. I wouldn't be surprised if the hybrid period was extended to 30 or 45 seconds, with a 2:30 or 2:15 teleop period, respectively.
Since it's easy to program a 15 second autonomous with an efficiency difficult to match with the Kinect, I see this as a fairly straightforward method of incentivising teams to use Kinect without introducing a potential imbalance if it were to be heavily weighted in the points.