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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
No offense but have we been watching the same matches? There's clearly a set of "dominant" robots and a set of the middle performers and lower performers. There's a point at which they merge for a bit but there is a definite transition.
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Yeah me and two others from 1989 were down in Trenton today. I do know what you are saying. There are absolutely some great robots and there are less able robots, but the difference between both alliances (besides penalties which is an entirely different issue) in qualifications is consistently only a handful of moon rocks which could have gone either way by the slightest difference in the throw or position of the robots. I really do think that most elimination matches will come down to the wire and end with last second dumps/shots/throws that will decide the match.
Another thing I noticed was that a single team can't really carry an alliance to a win anymore. Sure some help more than others, but it almost seems that alliances are only as strong as their weakest link. Watching a non-functioning robot's trailer just get destroyed by the payload specialists was particularly painful, and there really isn't much a "powerhouse" can do to compensate for that disabled bot anymore.
IMO anyway