Unexpected Plays That Make the Crowd Go Wild!

[Nuttyman54]

The Scene: 2007 Einstein Final 3
Newton Champs 190, 987 and 177 vs Archimedes Champs 233, 71 and 179.

Everyone is convinced Hammond is a sure lock to get their 5th championship title, having never lost on Einstein before. They've got the ramps, 233 has the tube scoring, 179 brings the defense.

Tubes are scattered all over the rack. Nobody has long rows and it's going to come down to the endgame ramps. The match is winding down and it's close, but Archimedes has the advantage on the tubes. 71 pulls back, clears out the zone and drops their ramps. It's a clean drop this time, unlike in Final Match 2 where one ramp failed to go down. That mishap cost them the sure win and forced the rubber match, but this time everything deploys properly.

It's all about who can get up cleanly and net the 30 point endgame bonus. 233 and 179 are practiced and sure-handed, if the ramps are down they get up. It seems all but certain that Archimedes will take it.

And then The High Rollers come screaming across the field... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gznDtrAv7sA#t=108

[hardcopi]

A couple of plays came to mind for me.

In 2012 we were on an alliance with with BOB and Star Trec. We were a cycler they were both 30 point climbers. At the end of the match they were climbing and we ended up shooting between them as they both made their 30 point climb. Then we did our 10 point hang.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUr0XPCCeAA

In 2010 our team managed to do the double hang in competition with Enginerds. (Before my time, but the crowd went absolutely nuts)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obXxvgInsI0

There was also a match at MSC that I cannot remember, but our alliance member was a tall bot and he tipped. He was leaning against the side wall early in the match. Our driver made his cycle then swung around knocked our ally upright and then continued on. He just did it so cleanly it was great.

[2348humanplayer]

One of the best moments to me was back in Aerial Assist at our home regional, the Hawaii Regional. We were the only team there capable of doing a climb on the pyramid, and we went for it over and over again, but could never get a good catch on the corners to climb. However, one match, we were able to catch the bottom corner well and climbed. We stopped the climb as soon as we were in 20 point range, just because I didn't want to risk it. As soon as we got past that point, we were REALLY sketchy that high. But we stopped it there, and the audience went NUTS as we were going up, even more when the buzzer sounded and we were still in the air. Matches stopped for nearly 5 minutes as EVERYONE wanted to get a picture of it XD It was incredible. Unfortunately, there is no match footage, but someone did a compilation of the competition, and put it in there. Feel free to watch!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpJcGKJW0ug

The only comment on there is mine, with links to one of our climb attempts, as well as a short clip of our 20-pt climb.

[Michael Corsetto]

Showing the world how Aerial Assist is played Week 1. Finals Match 2 at IE, 399 catches the ball NFL Wide Reciever-style, not once, but twice! You can actually see the crowd go wild!

http://youtu.be/dhY_p3qhSkY

[bEdhEd]

Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto

Showing the world how Aerial Assist is played Week 1. Finals Match 2 at IE, 399 catches the ball NFL Wide Reciever-style, not once, but twice! You can actually see the crowd go wild!

http://youtu.be/dhY_p3qhSkY

Had we won the third match in semifinals, we would be in this match against you guys. We would have gotten our butts kicked!