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Originally Posted by Jeremiah Johnson
I attended the Midwest Regional this year and I can say that I was not surprised by the results. I am, however, surprised by three things:
- The game is VERY boring and anti-climatic.
- The matches are determined by penalties more often than not.
- 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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Personally, I see the matches from the floor, and this is probably as (or more) exciting as the 2006 game(1). The matches are fast, and once people got it figured out nearer the end of the Midwest regional, there were decreasing amounts of penalties, so it seems that they are having a diminishing role(2). Hopefully most teams will have this figured out, but we'll have to see how week 2 goes.
(3) It's true that teams can get selected for reputation, but one thing I noticed at midwest was a lot of rough alliance pairings for seeding matches. I hate to use ourselves as an example, but just to give a sample for some of our alliances, we had one alliance which had one robot that crossed backwards over a line
five times almost giving us a negative score. Another time, there were only two robots on the floor for one of our rounds, and the other one on the floor was a drivetrain with no manipulator. I'm not saying we didn't have any good alliances, but the good alliances were the thin minority (we were honored to play with the psychadellic WildStang robot and its octagon of doom (as our team named your gripper)). Anyhow, we ended up 17th by the end of the whole thing as far as seeding goes.
Thankfully, 1114 chose us for their alliance nonetheless. AWESOME playing with you guys!
I love this game! See you at Purdue next!
-q