2016 Einstein

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by hyperhawk

First match on Mass of Hopper v Newton would have gone very differently if there had been sounds and score displays.

Edit: oh thank goodness

They're replaying it, for those wondering about the edit.

[Kpchem]

Originally Posted by bam-bam

Who won WFA? I heard Eric from 316.

The Woodie Flowers Award went to Eric Stokely from FRC Team 360.

[RonAyyyyyyyy]

You can do it Kelly!

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

congrats to 2990 on being the second PNW team to win their field, and the first team from oregon!

if y'all play a match, you'll also be the first PNW team on the Einstein carpet

and it's official! 2990 is the first PNW team to have a robot touch Einstein! great job with that feeding strategy

[MARS_James]

So far I am liking the interviews on Einstein better this year so far

[Reed501]

What's with the lack of defense? These matches are so boring to watch.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by Reed501

What's with the lack of defense? These matches are so boring to watch.

I mean, if you don't know too much about the other Alliance, triple offense isn't a bad plan. Now that they've seen the other 7 Alliances, they can start formulating a better plan for defense.
Additionally, many of these teams have largely undefendable shots or shoot from protected locations, so conventional courtyard defense would be fairly ineffective. An argument could be made for neutral zone delay tactics, but I'm not sure how effective it would be.

[Tartan47]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

So far I am liking the interviews on Einstein better this year so far

That's Awesome

[Carl C]

Originally Posted by Tartan47

That's Awesome

I wonder what their strategy was to improve them.

On a more serious note, I have been loving the Einstein presentation so far. Having all of the teams walk onto the floor with their standards was brilliant and despite the field issues, they have done a good job filling time thus far.

[Ravage457]

Originally Posted by Thad House

492 won last year but never played on Einstein.

Also Curie was a perfect reverse bracket. 5-8 won quarters, 7 and 8 won semis, and 8 won. Has that ever happened before?

987 was the #8 seed in 2007 when they won the World Championships, if I remember they called the Maroon alliance since that whole alliance had the same color

[jojoguy10]

Originally Posted by The other Gabe

and it's official! 2990 is the first PNW team to have a robot touch Einstein! great job with that feeding strategy

We were so excited! We'll see how we do!

[The other Gabe]

Originally Posted by Reed501

What's with the lack of defense? These matches are so boring to watch.

2990 was playing a sort of defense the whole game - by feeding their alliance balls, they simultaneously starved their opposition of game pieces. conventional courtyard defense would have done nothing for them when all three opposing robots could just shoot over them

[frcguy]

Even with 2990 dead, Hopper still wins. Crazy!

[MikLast]

5th QF was amazing. What happened to 2990 though? Seemed like they lost comms.

Also congrats 2990, its great to see a PNW team on Einstein!

[jojoguy10]

Originally Posted by MikLast

5th QF was amazing. What happened to 2990 though? Seemed like they lost comms.

Also congrats 2990, its great to see a PNW team on Einstein!

It sounded like the RoboRIO got reset. Apparently, the claim was that one of the low bar flaps hit our RoboRIO's reset button??? Not sure. I'm in Oregon hearing the noise :-)