The smaller bits of history

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by OZ_341

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.

2001 was the last year of the unknown alliances. In 2002 they handed out match schedules at the beginning of the morning on Friday.

Also the alliance selection in 2001 was #1 paired with #4 and then they picked 2 more robots that were not in the top 8. #2 paired with #5 and so on.