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Re: You know you've overdosed on FIRST when...

  1. When you're at a regional, and the announcers comfortably use a term that you coined and were the first to post on CD.
  2. When you make a prediction about a specific defense, and not only is it proven true on the field, but the only time the defense is ever used is against your own team, and the prediction is spot-on.

Our team strategy was to work the landfil, figuring the powerhouses would go for the HP stations. By mid-January, I was regularly referring to this as "mining" the landfill at our build sessions, and finally posted the term in February. I heard it used by the announcers at Bayou (week 4) as casually as if it were an official term from the rule book.

I predicted that a "noodle net" would be an ineffective defense, because noodles tend to "hang high" then quickly drop. I have only found evidence of one "noodle net" ever deployed. It was against us at Bayou, in match two of semis. While I do not have enough video to explicitly confirm this, it appears that the HPs of both 3946 (my team) and 3937 (Breakaway) put at least one noodle over that net. Here's Robin's (3946's human player) noodle.
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