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Originally Posted by rich2202

Not only do you have to clear the Step, but you also have to clear the other Alliance's Land Fill (otherwise, they get a point for being in their landfill). You really want to get it behind a stack of totes to make it even more difficult for the other Alliance to quickly move the Litter into their landfill.

Yes, the goal is to get it across the opponents landfill zone, but the risk/reward is worth trying even if you're only marginally successful. The fact that there are no winners or losers of each match only magnifies that. If you land it completely in the opposing alliance landfill you give 3/60 teams at the regional 1 point (raising the Qualification Average at the regional by .05 points each match you do this). If you have even 1 inch of that litter extending past their landfill, you give your own alliance 4 qualification points.

Originally Posted by BitBlt

In a robotics competition, with emphasis on STEM, why does FIRST even have an option for human players to score points? Seems dumb to work so hard for six weeks only to have lose a match because the other alliance could accurately throw a basketball. Pool noodles and qualifying based on average score make it a little more palatable, but it's still crazy.

Hey, at least it's not like 2009 Lunacy, where the essentially the ONLY way to score points was by having your human player do it.