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Re: Sacramento 2015
It was great fun. I especially liked the teams that struggle through adversity.
Sometimes we forget how hard it is to field a working robot. I believe 1422 had real problems with passing inspection and the Apes of Wrath won the GP award for helping them so they were able to field a robot on Saturday. The 3250 robot with their three bin autonomous mode was very impressive. One time I saw them score 2 bins even though their ally ran into them during auto. 971 had an awesome design for placing the bins gently on the platform based on a pantograph. 1671's intake for stacking human player bins was brilliant. The Vikes (701) had trouble at first getting the first grey to land flat, but they worked on it at got better each match they played. In general experience counts. 118, 1678, 1671 all had competed before and it showed. What I liked about these teams were every match was played with intensity, as if it were an elimination, even though they were cruising.
971 was competing for the first time and I am predicting they will be pretty darn efficient come SVR. The number 6 seed, 4543, is a team from a continuation high school - these guys are blowing away stereotypes and misconceptions about the digital divide, plus they made it to the semi-finals.
A hint to teams who want to score co-opitition points, DON'T Throw litter onto the field until AFTER the yellows are stacked!
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