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On the Platform for three points.

I think that having robot the platform during a game of Breakaway should have been worth three points and I have more justification for it then "It would have made my team win that match."

As we all know a suspend robot is one robot hanging off of another robot that is also hanging from the tower. This is worth three points. It also requires two well designed robots, robots designed to go above the normal call of the game, two skilled drivers, and maybe some luck. It nets your alliance 5 points.

Getting a robot on to the platform also requires two well designed robots, also designed to go beyond the normal call of the game, two skilled drivers, and maybe some luck and yet it nets your alliance only 2 points.

Both getting a suspended robot and having a robot on the platform are amazing feats and I think they should be awarded more equally.
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