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Re: Suffield Shakedown Scrimmage Pre-Season Event

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed
I admit, I was dead wrong about the Super cells (and owe my teammate a buck already because of it) though I think teams that can score at will (there weren't many robots lighting it up yesterday except 126 will make it so that the Supercell won't hurt them.
I agree wholeheartedly that unless you have a super high scoring machine, losing the Super Cell 20 second battle is doom. But that's similar to other years where the one black ball or the ball on the goal, etc., have been a huge difference. We only won by one point, and in fact, we had the accidentally scored SuperCell in the last game, I believe. I think we won a crucial match (by one point?) in the Elims even after the other Alliance more Super Cells.

And for those that couldn't see it on the WebCast, the Super Cell battle really starts long before that 20 seconds. If you haven't done your Empty Cell strategy and countdown jockeying, it makes thing simply much tougher.

And to boost our ego... was our robot really lighting it up? Since I and my pit team are always focused on our robot's performance and always looking at the bad parts for improvement, I really couldn't give an assessment of how it stacked up to other robots like the Bobcats, the Ueberbots, Buzz, and Trinity. (Sorry if I forgot others, but sad to say, the pit chain only unlocked only a few times a day).

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