[RonnieS]

At first glance walking around the pits, we were pretty pleased with what we saw. Only maybe 1 or 2 teams that were the common box on wheels, the rest seemed to have mechanisms....this opinion greatly changed when we seen teams on the field. The box on wheels has evolved to a tall rectangle on wheels. The teams that have had drive practice were very easy to pick out.

Teams with active intakes that worked had a great advantage! Being super slow and relying on lining up is a very bad way to get good at this game. It also seemed that a good alliance was better off doing 2 stacks of 3 totes and a can then 1 stack of 5 with a can and then tip it over after wasting the entire match.

Now strictly scoring, I was surprised with how little every team beside the good ones were able to contribute. I thought there would be the good and mediocre but it seemed like you were either getting a few stacks or none(beside the bad matches which I will attribute to little drive practice). I expected more teams to do a 3 tote auto just simply on the fact that the points from that would get you ranked fairly high just from that. (Obviously this is true for early events, not so true for later events)

This is just a side note, I noticed the refs being very relaxed about transport configuration. I seen numerous teams come to the field WAY outside of transport configuration and nothing said...that really disappointed me.
-Ronnie