2012 Lessons Learned:The Negative

[BJC]

Originally Posted by Jim Zondag

Team 33 experienced the same thing on Galileo. We thought that the new balls put in for Elims felt very different and our alliance missed most of the Hybrid shots.
The error appear larger than what we had seen before at any of the other events, so it did seem that these ball may have been 'more different'. There will always be variables outside of the control of the teams, and playing peice variablity is always one of these. I think that dealing with ball variablitity was our biggest challenge in developing the robot this year.

Jim, don't forget the elim's match where we had a ball jam up in the collector. (which had never happened before.) I thought it was just really bad luck at the time, but now I think it could have been that the balls were actually different from the rest of the season.