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Originally Posted by efoote868

That's not to say it doesn't happen.

One of my mentors long ago told me a story about how creative FIRST teams can be in playing games. Unfortunately, I don't remember the team numbers but the situation was as follows:
During 2004 (First Frenzy: Raising the Bar), one of the teams had a net in which they could catch all the balls from above when they dropped. They were very good at what they did, and their robot seemed unstoppable.

Until another team figured out they could drop the doubling ball in their net, thus jamming the robot and preventing them from catching any of the balls.

If any of you were around long enough to witness this, please let me know who was involved. I'd love to see it on Youtube (if it exists).

I think this may have been 461 Westside Boiler Invasion. We hung around with them quite a bit at Champs that year as our robot miserably failed and their matches were much more entertaining. I know they had a net to catch the falling playground balls and they attended the Midwest Regional that year. Unfortunately I don't have video links to it.