[BPetry234]

Cyber Blue is at DC this week. It is a rookie regional with 10-15 rookie teams competing for the first time. They look good for the most part. I'm really impressed after talking to most of them after hearing their hardships. I guess since I was never on a rookie team I never really appriciated how lucky our team is from an experience stand point. As far as helping teams and helping the field set up team I have never seen a more gracious group of veterans. 45, 365, and 1712. (just to name a few) were all over the place with parts, motors, and just advise. It was great to see a mess of colors helping one team that was having a lot of programming problems.

The game is very exciting. Since there are a lot of rookies, most matches had only 2 or 3 teams on the field. No big differences from the human players yet but they will only get better as the weekend goes on. Pretty much it is a dumpers paradise. With only one or two robots on the field, shooters reign supreme, but once you put three targets out there for a quick dump to get a bite at, watch out. Power dumpers, at this point, seems like it will be a must for a winning alliance. The only real question is what is better for your stratagy, a one or two shot dumper or a steady stream of moon rocks from a shooter?