[fox46]

Wayne is right--

Climb time means nothing if it takes you the entire match to line up. If you are counting from the second we grab the first bar to the second we clear the 20 pt zone, our climb takes 20 seconds at full throttle.

BUT - this is entirely negating that when I see the clock hit 60 seconds left, I was alerting the drivers to finish their run of discs and make their way to the bottom of the leg. Some climbs were a "drive up and deploy the climber" kind of occurance whereas others were "drive up and futz around for 20 seconds before hitting the gas.

In many cases, some 10 point robots which take 2 seconds to lift off the ground could not for the life of them line up which meant they were unable to hang. Even 254 executes this type of hang before climbing and the video does not show this. - Yes it's an incredible mechanism, BUT if they can't get it lined up and off the ground then they aren't going to be making the 30 points.

Remember that teaser videos are all filmed under "ideal" conditions and are not always representative of actual performance. Case in point- I recently read a post that 118 had removed part of their climber and was only pulling 10s - very contrary to their reveal video.