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Originally Posted by Basel A
Obviously human players were important this year. At a low level event, they could get close to robot score levels. At higher levels, their contributions were often the difference between alliances that moved on in Playoffs and those that didn't. At the highest level, human players define the scoring ceiling of great HP-fed robots. Even the best robots and human players combined take 15+ seconds to get 6 totes out the chute and in a stack (with 3-4 stacks, that's the plurality of the match).
But no game will ever compare to Lunacy in human player importance. Human players were the main scorers for most teams. HP players accounted for more than 50% of the scoring. |
The human player for 1241 that year was probably the most athletic human player I ever saw in FIRST (he was a basketball player) He jumped above the plexiglass and slammed balls down into the goal (sometimes so hard they would bounce back out). After a while teams learned to avoid him much to his dismay.