[Chris Hibner]

When we designed the robot, the real goal was to get the balls near the front of a goal so a partner team could push them in quickly and easily. Our thought was that the majority of the battle for being able to win a match was going to come in the neutral zone, and whoever could get balls into the offensive zone the fastest would win. We thought that if we scored 10-20% of our redirected balls, that's a bonus, but getting them quickly into easy scoring position was the design goal.

We made a few versions of turret extenders during the last fix-it window, and we'll test them out when we get a chance.

The thing I'm most happy about from this event is that we became enough of a kicking threat that we don't need to redirect all of the time. I'm hoping that strategic flexibility pays off at States and Atlanta.