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Re: BAE Granite State Regional

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Originally Posted by Pat Fairbank
The scoring system has been having problems all day - the standings display has been out of commission since noon.

We have no data on team rankings, so as you can imagine it's making alliance-picking strategy somewhat difficult.

As for the gameplay itself, I can tell you that autonomous 3-point goal-scoring is the make or break factor in this game. The teams who can do it well are winning their matches, no matter how badly they do in the human-control portion.

Also, I'm a bit annoyed that a fair number of balls are bouncing out of the centre goal and not being counted. We've shot ten in a row directly into the goal and had two or three bounce back out.
Quoted for truth.

And good god, man. Your team is absolutely insane. I mean really that shooter of yours that scored 40 in autonomous is just unfair.

Another thing about this game:

Teams are either great at it or horrible. There's little middle ground. At BAE, I'd say there are about 5 or 6 teams--296, 138, 1276, and a few more--that can dominate and win practically by themselves. There are several teams that can do ok, but lots that tip easily.

--Petey
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