Pacific Northwest Regional

[Tyler 178]

Does anyone have footage of friday's matches for the Pacific Northwest regionals?

233 was the best team there, the pink team from florida. They made "under the table" deals with almost all of their opponents and made a deal. They agreed to not knock over each others stacks to get more QP's.

My team, 949, had the highest score of the day for a while, with like 258 QP's. We took out 6 rows of boxes on top of the ramp with one sweep. We did this with our 8 ft wide arms. We only left one stack 3 high left on the ramp. We didn't make any deals with our opponents either. But we don't have autonomous, and that hurts our chances.

But then 233 made a deal with the other teams in their next match, and made an 8 high stack with human players. The other team let it stand, and team 233 got around 360 QP's. I personally think this is kind of cheap to make deals with opponents before matches. 233 made deals all day, and because of that, they are seeded #1. Don't get me wrong, 233 has a great bot, probably the best one at the pacific NW regional, but making deals is cheap.

Team 190 from massachussettes, the crab bot, was really good too. And I don't think they made deals. They can make it to the top of the ramp in 4.6 sec, and take out 4-5 rows of boxes.

Well, thats my take on the day at the pacific northwest. No one can stack, and there is a lot of deals going on now. Tomorrow should be interesting. The best teams are from florida, and massacussettes, go figure. The only teams from the east coast that are at the pacific northwest teams are beating all the NW teams. It almost seems kind of cheap that experienced teams from the east coast come and beat on the teams in the NW that are more newly formed.