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Here's one
OK, I've got a lot of these... but here is one:
It's 1998, at the Nationals. I think that the elimination rounds are just beginning. We were on stage at Einstein, getting ready for a match against team 65, the Huskie Brigade.
Right before our match started, a TechnoKat 8th grader ran up to our drive team and said:
"Watch their human player. He will try to knock hit your ball out of the middle scoring zone right when you put it in there... fake putting it in there, so he throws his ball away."
This 8th grader was very excited that he found this news out... the drive team acted like it was no big deal and said "yeah, thanks."
So... we get into the match, and we get a ball ready to score into the middle scoring zone. Our arm operator started to roll out the ball to let it go... but he faked letting it go and rolled it back into the gripper. Right before he rolled it back, the Huskie HP threw his ball hard, right at where we were scoring our ball.
After the Huskie ball flew over the top of the middle scoring zone, our operator calmly scored the ball.
The match was close, and we won. We have been using this example on the importance of scouting ever since '98. Of course, we made a big deal about how important that information was and gave alot of credit to the 8th grader who found it out.
Andy B.
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