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Originally Posted by Joe Ross
2001, perhaps the year that had the biggest point advantage for being fast, required a lot of finesse balancing the bridge and most teams did not gain much by being ultra fast.
2002, It didn't matter if you got the goals first, only if you had them at the end.
2003, vision was the limiting factor in clearing out all the bins from your opponents area, not speed.
2004, you could very easily herd balls and cap and then hang, without ever traversing the field. If you held the balls internally, you didn't really have to be fast at all.
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2001....then entire game had to do with the speed with which you did something. If you got from point a to point b faster you had more time to work with balancing or whatever.
2002....dj already made my point
2003, you may not have won, but if you knocked the bins over quickly (quickly....nice pun) you shifted the game to one side dramatically. The rest of the time the other team had to play catch up....
2004....defensively, speed was a huge factor (who did 71 pick first in atl? oh oh 494 that's right)
I think some people underestimate what being the first to the punch can do for you. Personally I am not one that likes having to play catch up.....and i don't believe this stuff from certain ppl that the students can't handle the speed (with enough practice they should be fine)...btw did anyone see 25 in 2003 fly around, and 60/254 in 2004.....? "speed is king" imho....