Thread: Did FIRST underestimate us?
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Re: Did FIRST underestimate us?
No way. They did not underestimate us. The consistently dynamic way the tetras fail is awesome. When there is more than a few tetras on a goal and one begins to "peel away", they all peel away. It is so cool. At FLR we called it the "slinky". I announced at Great Lakes and must have used that term 10 times. I bet the Game design Committee tested how the stack falls over and once they discovered the failure mode, it sealed the deal for the tetra.

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