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Re: High Scores

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Originally Posted by Yan Wang
I believe Team 1241, Theory6, can. They were rookie all stars at GLR and the Canadian Super Regional... I saw their 140 (or was it 130) and 150 point matches in Canada... if they are under the drop, they catch nearly all of them.
I was at GLR, and saw them run. Their "throat net funnel" design looked cool, and was VERY effective. But they too had problems with bounce-out from the fast dump.

BTW, in operation 1241's machine reminded me a LOT of the egg from the movie "Alien", opening up. Creepy <shudder>, yet utterly fascinating to watch at the same time (our net box simply expanded at the lower edges, with netting wedges to fill the gaps). It's only problem was a vulnerability to the "apple in a pig's mouth / big ball stuff" move if they set up for the drop too soon. They were eating balls like mad all day Friday. But in the very first round on Saturday, another team dropped a big ball into their throat at second 42, and all the small balls bounced off. That caused the entire audience to jump to their feet in surprise, and really set a high excitement mood for the rest of the day. As one of only a few ball bin machines there, they were also SERIOUSLY harassed as a major threat by teams trying to push them, or seize them with their big ball arms and drag them away.

Cool machine, 1241! Can anyone from your team tell us how many max you DID manage to catch?

How about Team 93?

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