[Jon Jack]

We hold practices every Saturday during competition season (unless we're competing, of course). During these practices we always have webcasts up. During breaks we'll sit down and watch a few matches. If there is a set of finals that look like they could be good, we'll stop and take a break to watch them. We like watching matches for many reasons:

--It gives us a chance to see how the game is changing from week to week. Sometimes we're idle for 2-3 weeks and the game can change a lot between that time.

--Lets us see how different teams with similar robots are playing the game, and how others are defending them.

--Gives us a chance to see teams we may be playing with at future regionals or championships.

-- Shows us what we should be practicing and preparing for (getting pinned, playing ball starvation, breaking 469's cycle, etc).

--Sometimes, we'll actually play webcast audio while driving so our drivers get used to crowd noise, tuning out the announcer, etc.