[BJC]

I don't think it's as much of a paradox as you might think.

The primary reason 33 choose to pick up off of the ground was to enable the 7 disk auto. We saw this as an opportunity to control the flow of the match from the beginning. It was also an opportunity to stack the secondary qualifier used for seeding in our favor. For example, if we didn't pick up off the ground we wouldn't have seeded second on Archimedes. (It could most defiantly be argued that the reason we lost Einstein was because we started missing the 7 disk.)

The secondary reason was more in-match strategy related. We recognized that there were going to be full court shooters this year, many missed shots, and don't forget the rain of Frisbees that was changed right at the end of build season. All of these pointed to fast efficient floor pickup as being a valuable asset in addition to cycling. Our Archimedes alliance strategy (double fcs) wouldn't have possibly worked with us only cycling.

It seemed to turn out okay. We won three districts and were world finalists which is the best we've finished in a while (arguably ever.)

, Bryan