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View Poll Results: Most Effective FRC Robot EVER?
71 Team Hammond 2002 160 49.08%
1717 D'Penguineers 2012 23 7.06%
254 The Cheesy Poofs 2014 70 21.47%
1114 Simbotics 2008 20 6.13%
469 Las Guerrillas 2010 42 12.88%
2169 KING TeC 2013 11 3.37%
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Re: Most Effective Robot EVER?

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Their robot was not at all built for quals. You got 3x the losers score, so if Beatty had all 3 goals the highest losing score the opponent was going to get is 20 points (10 per robot in home zone at end of match).

If I remember correctly, a thrown ball got stuck under them before they could grab the goals and that lead to their loss in elims.
Right. There were many matches where Beatty intentionally didn't control all three goals in an effort to help increase the losers score.
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