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Originally Posted by dellagd
This. Definitely.
I end up saying this a lot to my team. It's easy to forget how many teams aren't active in the online community at all.
While the importance of the co-op stack may seem glaring to most of us, there are a lot of teams out there who just haven't picked up on it yet. Same thing with the human player. It's clear to us here that lining up with the human player station is not something trivial, but a lot of teams will simply not take it into account, may it be for lack of team resources or simply inexperience. I mean, and this is just an educated guess, but out of the 3000 some-odd teams in the world, I would wager that most don't even finish their robot before bag day, let alone have the practice time to see how there robot really interacts with the field during match play.
All the reveal videos going around tie into this too. Its easy to say that the average robot will be scoring 60+ points a match after watching those. I know, a bunch of people on my team did. If a team bothers to put together a video, then, first of all, they have their robot all ready to go before bag day, which means they are already pretty well off, and two, they think they will be competitive. Those videos are not accurately representative of the population of FRC teams that we will all see at our events. Be careful when you let them influence your predictions.
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Agree.
Its so easy to be enamored with all the reveal video's keep in mind almost every one was edited to show the robot in best light. In our reveal for instance everything was full speed and only cut in three places, partly to take out a delayed noodle insertion as she was not the normal noodle girl. This provided for the most part accurate assessment of shown capabilities.
Many of the TOP 25 reveals and others posted were HIGHLY edited and video speeds either slowed or increased. This again to put the robot for TOP 25 reveals in best light.
I have a distinct feeling after watching the 5 minute Week 0 matches that 2:30 (- 45% of match time) Week 1 matches will be fairly low scoring overall. Alliance partners can help the average or curtail it really depends on who is on your team.
I think this game unlike past years really is hard to predict as there are so many variables to take into account and hard to fully duplicate field conditions. I'm glad we got two full days of practice initially we were terrible but we got better another Thursday practice will be needed ahead of our matches to be primed to compete. At least we will have the benefit of seeing earlier results that is huge.
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