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Re: 2009 Greater Toronto Regional

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Originally Posted by UberChar View Post
what was that timeout for? i wonder what team 188 was up to when they didn't show up for the 2nd final match? my team was saying they were trying to purposely trying to get penalties so they would have the super cell's removed?
Not so much a penalty, but the smartest thing for the blue alliance to have done would have been to lose so badly that the red alliance would incur a double-G13 penalty and lose all their supercells in the next match. Since they were almost certain to lose the 2nd finals match without 188, they needed to lose it so badly that it hurt the red alliance in the next match. Unfortunately, I'm sure they thought 188 was going to play with them until about 60 seconds before the match, so they probably wouldn't have had much strategizing time to deal with their loss.

In retrospect, if they had caused the red alliance to be supercell-less in the 3rd match, they might have won, since the last match was decided by a supercell.

As for what 188 was doing when they didn't show up: they were fixing the robot, and they very nearly finished in time. When they made the announcement that 188 wasn't going to play the match, 188's robot was sitting at the side of the field. There was actually a BIG boo when they announced 188 wasn't going to play, I couldn't believe it.

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