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At St Louis, 868 built a 6-stack in Match 78. Their QP score for that match was 327, the second-highest for any match at any regional this weekend for which scores have been posted on the FIRST site.
But 868 was not able to repeat their feat, and finished the regional with a 106 QP average, ranked 13th.
I personally hope that stacking improves before the Championship, since it will add considerable excitement to the competition. But I remain a skeptic -- knocking 'em down is just too easy for a robot with good pushing power.
As things stand, I think the game belongs to robots that can crash the wall autonomously, sweep bins, knock down stacks, play some defense, and fight their way to the top of the hill in the final seconds. Many of these are lowriders. The best example I have seen is the Bomb Squad (Team 16).
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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