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Re: Scoring and Defense.

Posted by Chris, Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.

Posted on 4/28/99 11:48 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: Scoring and Defense. posted by P.J. Baker on 4/27/99 10:06 AM MST:




: To sum it up, I understand that it sucks to have gone 6-0 and not been drafted (you are not alone Walled Lake, I know of at least one other team), but I think that the system ended up rewarding teams that could both win close matches and win with big scores. Although there were certainly more than 16 teams with that capability, I felt that the system did a great job of getting most of the best teams into the elimination tournament.


I just want to point out that we're not whining or crying or anything. As I pointed out on the Rumor Mill we're mostly disappointed in ourselves for what we did wrong. We were just hoping that we could get picked up so we wouldn't feel so bad about what we did. Not getting picked up really made us live with ourselves, and that is hard.

I should explain what I mean:

Has anyone seen the story of the Super Bowl in the late 70's between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Dallas Cowboys? At the end of the game, the Cowboys had the ball deep in Pittsburgh territory and trailed by less than a touchdown. As time was running out, Roger Staubach noticed that the tight end (can't remember his name) was wide open in the end zone. He threw the ball nice and easy and hit the tight end right in the hands with a perfectly thrown ball. THEN - the tight end dropped the ball, losing the game.

Well, we 'dropped the ball in the endzone' at the nationals. In the last match we had an easy chance at a perfect score, but we had a motor problem. The problem was easily fixable and would have been noticed had we run our standard test before the match. For some reason, the test was not run and we didn't notice the problem until the match was under way. Our two opponents both had robot problems and we had the entire field to ourselves to make a perfect score. But thanks to our mistake, we settled for a low scoring win (thanks to our partner team), and dropped out of the top 16. The perfect score would have been good enough for the #1 seed, as it turned out.

So, first of all, we're dissappointed in ourselves that we let the #1 seed slip away. And that is very hard to live with. Then we missed the finals because of our mistake, which just compounded the dissapointment. I suppose some of us wondered out loud why we weren't picked so we know what we did wrong, so it doesn't happen again.

I do have a few theories why we weren't picked.

1. We may not have sold ourself well. We tried to sell ourselves to the rest of the top 16 when we were in the top 16 just in case we didn't make it. I guess our sales job wasn't good enough.

2. Spending time in the top 16 hurt us. We were in the top 16 almost the entire tournament until the very end. The only teams that came to see us were teams looking to get picked by us. No one from the top 16 came to see us (except Team E.L.I.T.E., which didn't make it either) in case we didn't make the top 16 ourselves. When we tried selling ourselves, some of the top 16 teams didn't appear that interested in seeing us because they thought we would end up in the top 16 so they didn't want to waste their time.

3. Regional Alliance Comfort. I knew this would kill us if we didn't make the top 16. We STUNK at our regional. A lot of the top teams were in the top 8 at a regional and were comfortable with their partner at that regional. I figured that these teams would pick their partner from the regional that they were comfortable with and have played with already. I noticed that at least a few teams did this.

4. Our robot didn't fit. This was true with some teams. But this is where I thought we had an advantage to being picked. We could do almost everything, and our strength was controlling the puck. Most teams were looking for a team to control the puck, and we did that as good as anybody.

So, we're not bitter at anyone or anything like that. We're just upset with ourselves and hoped that we would be picked up so we could forget about our mistake. When we weren't picked up, we wondered out loud why we weren't picked up. I have some theories why, but in the end, there's only one guarantee to get into the finals, and we blew it.

-Chris


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