[galewind]

as per placing the goals to block a chute, I don't believe that's considered ungracious or unprofessional. I consider it a defensive strategy, which has all but been eliminated in this year's game. Team 25 has always tried to play a defensive game, and this is how they're doing it this year. Teams that have robots that can pull the mobile goals back away from their corral may be useful for solving this problem. We knew from day one that some teams would be attempting to do this in autonomous mode, and honestly, it's not a bad tactic.


As for our view of the competition, we're unfortunately having a lot of problems with the bot, so we've been a bit edgy. We unfortunately had to scrap our manipulator at virtually the last moment because of weight, and had to slap something together before ship date in under 3 days. Needless to say, it's not a beauty of engineering or anything like that -- in fact, we just hope it gets us up on the bar. Hopefully things will shape up tomorrow!