A Recycle Rush Reflection

[Sunshine]

I'm betting/counting on an over abundance of burglars. Don't let me down....lol

[Siri]

Originally Posted by AGPapa

I know how important minibots were on Einstein, what I want to know is Did the alliance captains drafting in 2011 know how important minibots were?
This year we have very active CD threads always discussing the importance of canburglars. GameSense talks about it, Looking Forward talks about it; did people in 2011 talk about minibots like we're talking about canburglars now

I don't remember specific DC threads (not to say there weren't any, just to say that that was years ago), but I do remember that we as a team discussed it, and we were idiots in 2011. In fact, it must have been on CD quite a lot, or there wouldn't have been so much cloning. We won Philly that year with a minibot whose identical twins were all over the FRC world. As I recall a lot of that cloning was related to the "seriously, this is becoming a coin flip" discussion. Loud discussion. And I remember lots of "refs as garage door openers" complaints vis-a-vis not really knowing if people were deploying exactly on time. It was at least known aggravation and a serious enough game mechanic that people were loud about objecting to it. I have trouble parsing how much of that was CD and how much was in person, though.

On the other hand, for you youngins' out there, we didn't have LF or or Ri3D or GameSense or Top25 or Top10 or... etcetera. (I wonder what Car Nack said that year.) So there's a limit to the ubiquity potential.

Originally Posted by Rangel(kf7fdb)

I also think that awesome canburglers will make it to the very late picks since alliances will be weighing in different factors and not just canburglering. I think many captains might pick slower canburglers that are also good tote stackers vs a robot that is a awesome canburgler and not much else. Especially for the lower seeded alliances where they might still need help with tote stacking.

Can an NE and/or PNWer talk about how selection played out at their District Championships? What was your depth in stacking and specialist(s), and where did which caliber of each end up in the draft?

And does a mod want to kick us all out, because I think we broke this thread topic.

[Ginger Power]

Originally Posted by Siri

And does a mod want to kick us all out, because I think we broke this thread topic.

I was thinking the same thing haha. It should be moved to a thread called: "2015 Champs Discussion" or something along those lines. I've really enjoyed the conversation if that means anything.

[EricAnderson191]

I have been reading the responses with great interest and wanted to add a new question connected to the discussion about alliance choice:

What do you think the expansion to 8 divisions does to the alliance choosing process.

Also, if I was in charge of division placement I would work hard to keep the powerhouse teams spread out to avoid say 254 and 1114 having a chance to work together.

Are division placements random?

Eric