Here's the problem with the minibot

[Peyton Yeung]

I feel like this years end game decides more matches than most of the actual tube scoring. In the past two regionals I've attended (Boilermaker and Midwest) it seemed that matches we won due to the fact that some teams had effective minibots and some didn't. At boilermaker we were in an alliance with a team who only had a drive train and a minibot vs a fully functioning robot who was proficient at scoring tubes. Due to mechanical issues only 2 robots worked in that round, our alliances minibot robot and the opposing alliances scoring giant. The minibot robot went to the tower and stopped until the end game where it deployed the minibot and the other team spent the entire match scoring tubes. In the end we tied 30-30. So robot wise our alliance didn't exert much effort or work but still managed to tie with an alliance who was scoring constantly. I just feel like the reward of the race is a little high in comparison to the actual scoring of tunes