FiM 2016 Southfield Game analysis using Team 2834 spreadsheet

[shewejff]

Thanks for the kind words about 1025. It took us a bit to get all the bugs out and figure out how we should be playing the game. We're looking forward to our second competition and states.

Originally Posted by David Lame

We certainly intended to, although the difference between the real obstacles and the practice obstacles had a huge effect on us. It wasn't just the bendy drawbridge and sally port. The loss of friction on plastic was something we just didn't see coming. Our bad, and fix it for next time, but we still drew down the drawbridge and opened the sally port by ourselves, which I don't know if any other team did.

We had the same issues with the floppy drawbridge. Our "big arm" was designed to pull it down. It works really well on the team version. We tried it out on the practice field on Thursday night. It was much more difficult to do on the real version. It's a lot floppier, and the drawbridge being two layers of polycarb also didn't help. We found that we would occasionally grab just one of the layers. Thus we decided to not even attempt the drawbridge from the front in a match. Maybe in Marysville...