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Originally Posted by Jeremiah Johnson
The game is VERY boring and anti-climatic.
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I have to disagree here... I think Overdrive is incredibly exciting! I watched the NJ webcast, but I heard that there were a lot of great bots at the Midwest Regional, too. Plus you guys had the national high score yesterday. Boring? I think not.
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Originally Posted by Jeremiah Johnson
A team can get selected because of their reputation to build amazing robots in the past. (Someone from 16 or 1625, please explain to me why you selected us [648]? I'm grateful that you did, but it's perplexing.)
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This is nothing new; I've seen this happen a lot in the past. It has often been quite profitable, too. Even if the team doesn't have "the best" robot on the field, they have experience from past years which can help them to be better at handling their own robot, working with alliance partners, strategizing, and thinking on the fly. Experience is a huge plus in an alliance partner, and if a team has proved themselves in the past, other teams are not going to forget that.