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Originally Posted by Tom Line
I believe the difficulty hanging is disproportionate to the returns. Consider that if you didn't hang for those 20 seconds, you could probably get 1 more ball in the goal, rendering the hanging only really worth 1 point. Consider if non of your bots could hang, you could potential score 2 or 3 balls in that 20 seconds. Perhaps matches will be decided by a couple points, but this is NOTHING like 2007 where a single bot with a good ramp system could win 80% of it's seeding matches just by virtue of having those ramps.
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The problem with scoring in the last 20 seconds is if your alliance has more than 2 points, you have 1 second to return the ball to play before you suffer a penalty. FIRST really wants teams to attempt to hang or elevate thamselves this year.