900's Championship Cheesecaking Chronicles

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Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Team 900 and 1114 (and all teams on Einstein) played the game as designed, using the rules as any great strategist should. Have you not listened to the various strategy (cough Karthik cough) seminars? It does not matter really whether you like the rules or not, those that win, play with the rules they are given.

This snippet caught my attention.

First, our team are HUGE supporters of Karthik's strategy seminars. We base much of our strategy department on them. EVERY team can learn something from them.

Second, if teams don't play the rules they are given I think they are doing themselves a big disservice. This is the fun in FIRST to me. FIRST is about pushing the boundaries of engineering. Many times the teams who are successful are the ones playing in unconventional ways.

Every single team has the same rules to follow.

Last Thing:
Only speaking for myself and not our alliance but I really really wanted to see 900 play on Einstein. Not sure if we would have beaten them in the can war or not but I just wanted to see those harpoons. Crazy Idea that I thought was totally awesome. Big props to that whole alliance.