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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
Penalties played a very big part of the competition this year. You could have a domiant robot but if you're saddled with a clueless partner (or are clueless yourself) it doesn't matter how fast it goes, how high it reaches or how quick it stacks.
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This year was probably to most exciting adn equal playing field that FIRST has ever had, and hopefully they'll keep the three team alliances because I think it opens up the door for a lot of stratgey and situations that wouldn't have been possible with 2 vs 2 alliances.
The comment about acrcamedes with the 9 dominate teams is pretty much true to a degree as far as outstanding teams. I believe the 6th seeded alliance beat the #3 seeded alliance, and the #7 seed almost beat the #2 seed. There is no way that anybody could say team 173, 1071, 191, 1592 were not dominate teams when it came time for eliminations and any of those bottom 4 alliance captains could compete with the best of them.
Koko ed is right about the penalities being really big in nationals this year, if you even got a 10pt penalty in a lot of matches this year it seemed to me like they made a difference more times than not... In our quaterfinals it got really aggressive and luckily 4 disqualifications (2 per each alliance in 3 matches) balanced eachother out, and although my team's alliance lost I think all 6 teams agree we're happy it ended in a penalty free match with a 7pt difference, so if that #2 seed made just 1 mistake and got a 10pt penalty they would have gone home.
We had the pleasure to be alligned with former world champions in Atlanta and I believe all three teams were regional champions this season or at least finalists and Triple Play really stumped all three vetran drive teamswith adult coaches on the field and pit support stationed all over the place to discuss what they saw during the previous match.