[Boltman]

Being Cheescaked was definitely a great experience.

I have no issue with it... obviously the ability to grab two RC's off wall in auto trumps most everything in Eliminations.

It can backfire though, our cheesecake arms were not fully working and remained fully extended in multiple matches and slow . In the ones they worked they were great. We lost by 2 QA in the SF. Very Frustrating. So many 6 point plays.. ugh!

In SD...then we fixed them (re-did all air lines) and used them in Elims..they were super fast and flawless.. still lost in QF.

Why I like it...

We would have been picked anyhow being in Top 20 of each regional, so being cheesecake for us ,was a great experience. It added to us a capability we could use. Watching the teams work during lunch was amazing and the transformation of the bot to loose weight in every way possible was very interesting.

It was not liked by everyone on our team actually half the team did not want the canburglar arms. I had to convince the team it was our best chance.

It builds teamwork between teams and when it works and makes a difference its cool.

We were almost cheesecaked last year too...they tried to add cheesy vision and we learned how to inbound the ball. They never could get the code to work in time.

Having cheesecake work is a great experience. I all for it. In fact next year we are going to be under weight so if cheesecaked we don't have to modify the rest.

Anything that is within the rules that adds to teamwork and innovation is good in my book.