Thread: #1 seeded teams
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Unread 26-03-2006, 00:13
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Re: #1 seeded teams

From Sacramento/Davis Regional today, we (1351) were the #1 seed.

Our first pick was seed #18 (it may have been #13, those who know me know my memory for that sort of thing is a little fuzzy) which a -lot- of people were surprised by, but the pick was subject to huge ammounts of discussion and a lot of scouting by our best scouters. We had a way to get our own bot onto the ramp and win the round. The only rounds they could keep us from just dumping balls into the high goal was the time we were triple-teamed, and 649 worked perfectly as a high shooter unless they had someone on them...

But not to bore with strategy. A victor fried several mins before our first match, requiring us to use our timeout and a lot of frantic people to replace it and plug it in. I'm assuming because of the general panic, a pwm didn't get plugged in all the way (just to clarify, I don't blame anyone for this, it took hours to figure out where the problem was afterwards and multiple tries just to plug the dang thing in because it was sticking) and we never could figure out the problem on the field. Not having the left hand side of our drivetrain pretty much lost us two matches we would have easily won.

All it takes for the #1 seed to lose is a stupid system failure with bad timing to render their entire bot useless for twenty minutes.


[edited as per request and to correct a couple things, I typed this late]
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