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Re: Was the winning alliance unbeatable?

Posted by Wayne Cokeley at 04/09/2001 10:27 PM EST


Coach on team #25, Raider Robotix, from North Brunswick Twp. H.S. and Bristol-Myers Squibb.


In Reply to: Was the winning alliance unbeatable?
Posted by Chris on 04/09/2001 10:06 PM EST:



: If there was one team that could have stood a chance against that alliance it was Woburn (Team #188). With the capacity of being able to get four large balls on the goals, they could have beat the winning alliance given the right partners. Unfortunately a bad draw caused an otherwise excellent team to fail.

: Check out their site.

I will agree that 188 had a very neat idea with their design. We watched them time after time from the practice rounds through most of their seeding rounds and my assistant coach had them as a top choice for alliance partner. However repeatedly in the rounds either they couldn't hold onto the goals or their partners never worked well with them and as a result we never saw the actual squeezing of the balls between the goals. Often the picking up of the two central balls took a bit of effort and time too. In one practice round we were even shouting to the alliance partners to let them try it but it looked like nobody would work with them.
The winning alliance appeared to be at the limits of scoring for what the time would allow. Maybe a small ball or two in that far goal? Who knows- its over now.

Too bad they didn't allow one DREAM TEAM round where the top seed could pick any three partners just to see what the highest score could be. Might have been interesting.

WC



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