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Unread 03-03-2008, 11:17
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Re: week 1 questions

reflections from week #1 Regional.....

Sadly, our design seems not to be very effective in the hurdling aspect. It is too slow and very difficult to consistently control.

In NJ, Hurdling combined with speed ruled the roost. The winning alliance had 2 wicked hurdlers & 1 little wicked fast lap bot.

I STILL think that choosing an alliance that is IN the top 8 as an alliance partner during the Alliance Selection should be OUTLAWED (just my opinion). The winning alliance in NJ had the #1 & #6 team in it, and honestly I think they could have won without a 3rd team. They were very generous and picked a 3rd partner that was ranked #13.

Penalties - the line violation penalty was called nearly every match. It must have been close to 80% and in many cases affected the outcome of a match. Would basically agree that this rule becomes REALLY hard to abide by, if you get more than 1 robot in a zone, it gets congested REALLY fast. Think the best thing would have been going COMPLETELY back over the line as opposed to just "touching" it.

I was disappointed to see that there was not much made of the 80 inch rule. Our team went to great lengths to abide by this, but I saw numerous instances of other robots that I am fairly certain violated this rule. I know this is hard to see during a match, but think it could have been enforced during the inspection process.

Thanks to teams 816 & 836 for the partnership in the playoffs, think we worked well together, just came up a little short.

Congrats to teams 25, 103 & 381. You guys played the game great, I have no hard feelings towards your teams, just do not like the rules as they are. CONGRATS!!!!!!!!!!!

Onward to Philadelphia :-)
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