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Re: 2007 New Hampshire Regional (BAE SYSTEMS Granite State Regional)

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No Bumpers?!?! In our row of the pits, which is about 1/3 of the 46 teams at the regional, there are about 3 robots with full bumpers.
Yeah I was surprised with the number of teams not using bumpers. Free protection, free weight, free stability. It's also a very easy way of making sure you have numbers on your robot.

There are a couple of ramps, but none of them look really promising. We tried to get up one, but we ran out of time. Teams would seriously have to get back really early on in hopes of getting up a ramp. A forklift design might be different, but ramps definately provide some trouble.

The rack does really swing around. There were many many instances when a team would place a tube on the goal and try to back away without letting go of the tube. The rack proceded to shake violently and I actually did see a couple teams miss putting rings on while the goal while it was swinging.

Not many human players scored on the rack. One of our mentors (who is actually a field resetter for this event) said she counted four tubes scored by human players. One of those was scored by our human player.

As far as I know, only one team (Buzz 175) was able to score in autonomous.

I saw a couple of very good scorers. I see most of the time between scoring tubes is taken up by actually picking up the tube. It takes some time to line up, actually grab it, and all that.

That's my overview of just what happened during practice matches.
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