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Re: First Regionals
At St. Louis, the top rack scoring machines were 148 and 217 -- if those two get together, look for the rack to quickly assume a dominant color. In the eliminations they combined to put up 7-rows twice against very stiff defense. 148 did the same trick with other partners three times during qualifying matches. These are two very quick robots.
We also had some excellent ramps/lifters -- 1625 springs to mind, and 1985.
And of course it is not an accident that 1444/45/829 won the event. Two very strong rack scorers, and one very solid hybrid. The Digital Goats got two partners to 12" in three of their six elimination matches, including the very dramatic final match.
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Richard Wallace
Mentor since 2011 for FRC 3620 Average Joes (St. Joseph, Michigan)
Mentor 2002-10 for FRC 931 Perpetual Chaos (St. Louis, Missouri)
 since 2003
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research.
(Cosmic Religion : With Other Opinions and Aphorisms (1931) by Albert Einstein, p. 97)
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