The smaller bits of history

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Here is one that I totally forgot about until just yesterday.

In 2000 scouting/strategizing a match was extremely difficult.
Reason: (4) teams were assigned to a match, but you were not told your partners until about 5 minutes before the match.

So you only had 5 minutes, while waiting in the robot line, to strategize the match. So you had to scout really well and be ready for one of three possible alliance combinations for every match.

I can't remember when this practice stopped (2003?) I am pretty sure that in 2001 (during 4 v 0) they scheduled (8) robots and then told you the combination when you arrived in the queue.

That was a very tough situation for scouts, but on another level, interesting and fun.