Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

[Bill_B]

Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik

You think telling 6 overzealous teenagers that now they only have 15 seconds to score as many points as possible is going to make things less crazy? One of the recorded matches from Suffield shows an HP hurling frisbees overhand behind his back every 1-2 seconds. Spray and Pray sure came to mind there.

I think telling them they only have 6 discs and 30 seconds makes things better. Then they have an incentive to make every disc count and are much more likely to be accurate.

*I* don't think shortening the time would change much. I was only wondering if it had been considered.

The six disk count is further reduced by the number of 5-pt goal shots being attempted by robots. We're wondering what we have to do on an alliance to convince our partners we "deserve" custody of the colored disks for dumping. Maybe they should consider increasing the number of colored disks? IRI?