[EricH]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

By way of example here, you have 2006, where the alliance with the highest autonomous score goes on offense first, which was considered a significant advantage. Or 2004, where knocking a ball off in auton got you your balls 40 seconds sooner.

Don't remind me about 2006. Had a replay in a finals match because some field resetter didn't put the starting balls into the bins like they were supposed to, and a 10-ball auto dump got stuck on the sensor. Sensor read 15 balls (for 15 points--should have been 10). Opposing alliance drained 4 high goals for 12 points. Entire match played backwards...


I'd like to thank CVR for putting part of the problem into words... anybody in SoCal, go act on that post, please...