[David Brinza]

Originally Posted by Roger

Would have been nice to, uh, you know, see the whole field do autonomous, but that's my pet peeve.

This is a good example to point out that the "official" screen video is a record of what happens on the field, not for artful closeup shots. Here it is, only a few weeks after the fact and we have no idea who or how those nine points were scored. Before I looked at the video, I wondered -- did a single robot kick six balls? Or maybe six robots kick nine? Now I am still wondering. No record to show it.

Sorry for getting on my soapbox, David. It's not your fault. I really would have liked to see how it was done.

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To end on a more positive note, to kick a ball was a simple autonomous task, yet did take a lot of work to pull off. The robots that were able to kick three balls in the far zone, jump the bump, and kick two more were great.

No offense taken. I agree that the official video feed doesn't allow viewers to see the game. I've griped about this for years, believe me.

In the LA finals match #1 video, at least the scoring graphic was shown. At the end of autonomous the score was 5-4, in favor of the red alliance. In the match, every ball was kicked by robots in the far- and mid-zones, with near-zone robots "cleaning-up" by driving into the goals after a 10-second pause.