Team Update #20/Scoring Examples

[Matt Reiland]

I think the worst part about this whole deal for Truck Town is that in my head you are going to get penalized for showing off your design before the first regional. I would think that if you stayed stealth and never showed it off, the people that were so excited about it, saying it was blatantly illegal and unstoppable, wouldn't have even thought about it. This year after the first regional we may have heard through the grapevine that Truck Town has the most incredible unstoppable robot just like 71 last year. But hey 71 could be beat last year with the right match up. If Beaty last year told everyone in week 5 how they were going to use file cards 2 feet long and people started saying boy we can't even compete with that, FIRST it might/will ruin the carpet for sure with metal fingers sunk into the carpet, the same thing MIGHT have happened last year. Notice how Beaty comes up with out of the box strategies (Like 68 this year) but we don't see the preview that could come back to haunt them. Maybe that is a better strategy than we all think

I for one am very impressed with your bot, I know if we had to go against it we would give you everything we got, if that's not enough, you deserve to win with the better bot and strategy.

I also agree that the idea of straddling the bar is not in the black & white area and depends on how you interpret the rules. Sadly though I hate to see this kind of rule clarification after the ship period, after I was so fed up on the tethers from last year.