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Unread 09-03-2007, 19:29
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Re: Florida Regional 2007

Here's my update:
yes 79 is awesome. I haven't seen a lot of matches, but our scouting has them as best scorer. 1902, 179, 56, 1523 are all averaging 4+ per match. there are another 7 or so 2-3 cappers. Then you have about 6 good ramps - 312, 180, 179, 1345, 69, 86. But another 12 or so that don't work. We've tried to climb 2 ramps today that didn't work. Our I/R sensor we use for autonomous won't work in the halogen lights. We score every single time at the practice field. But it refuses to work on the playing field. So frustrating.... 386, and 1902 have great autonomous. It think there might be more, but I haven't seen them. Pinks arm was tearing itself apart, but they had somone rush new parts to them and got back up and running. I guarantee they will be in finals and do very well. They were just unlucky with 744 chasing them their 1 match today, and no other partners. We're still seeing repetitive match alliances. We've got quite a few w/ and against 665 and 435. But I've seen much worse, I think 1902 had 5 or 6 matches against 1 team (glad it wasn't us). We've had bad luck with pairings etc. but hopefully we can get in a good alliance in the end. It's going to be a rough set of finals in Florida, ramps and ringers everywhere, don't miss it!
As far as the 3 on 1's, I can tell you that our inspection took over an HOUR! I can't fathom how they planned to get 51 inspections done with that level of detail. It was brutal..... What they were doing measuring bots on the field and such, I don't know. Maybe they finaly backed off on the inspection requirements to get the bulk through and then followed up on the field. I know this morning they still had 28 inspections to go....
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