Thread: National championship scores? Thoughts on the game.
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Re: Thoughts on the game.
Posted by Chris Orimoto at 04/10/2001 8:12 PM EST


Student on team #368, Kika Mana, from McKinley High School and Nasa Ames/Hawaiian Electric/Weinberg Foundation.


In Reply to: National championship scores? Thoughts on the game.
Posted by Alan Federman on 04/10/2001 8:26 AM EST:



After going through this year's game, I'd have to say that last year, it was much easier. However, this may be due to the fact that our robot last year was not built to hang on the bar, but that's another story.

Yes, this year's game was incredibly hard. As a drive, I know that the pressure was definitely on when balancing a bridge, especially when having to do it faster yielded more points. Last year, even when the time was running down and we had to get on the ramp, it wasn't as nerve-wracking because of the ease of the task in general.

I hope that rookie teams are not turned off by this level of difficulty...especially because I doubt that the game will get any easier in future years.

I'll also have to agree that division breakdown seemed like a good idea. I'm still waiting to see a qualification requirement to attend the nationals...that would make the regionals very interesting indeed.

The only problem I have this year's game was the auto-pairing between #1 seed and #5 seed and so forth. I'm only assuming that the purpose of this was to prevent #1 from picking #2 like in past years...therefore eliminating "super-powered" alliances. What the people at FIRST didn't realize though, is that the top seeds in this year's game will MOST likely be goal-balancers and therefore will NOT want to pick each other anyway.
For example, at San Jose, the Cheesy Poofs were the #1 seed and Monta Vista was #2. However, both robots had identical functions so I considerably doubt (Jason you may correct me if I'm wrong) that the Poofs would've picked Monta Vista if given the chance.

Oh well, enough complaining for now I guess...maybe I'll have more to say on this later.

Just my personal thoughts...

Chris, #368
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