Human Player Performance at Regional Events

[KenWittlief]

maybe teams that designed a bot to hang or cap, didnt bother to build a goal or to have students practice shooting, since they will only have 3 balls in their corral if their bot can herd the cat-balls?

we should take a poll - on how many teams did students actually practice shooting into the official goal?

[Kaelia]

I think one of the problems was that the goal posts were a little more flexible than the ones the HPs practiced with--this was partially true for my team at least. Lots of teams missed many shots because they threw them too hard.

But I have to say, MAD PROPS to Team 33's HP!! He was awesome and was responsible for winning them some of the matches, including the championship match at VCU.

[Heretic121]

Originally Posted by jamapor

the best HP i've seen is 126's. she shoots almost 100%, and is just smooth and consistent

i would have to agree being alligned with them in the finals... great team and HP...

for me on thursday i was VERY shakey because it was my first ever meet/competetion and i was somewhat of a nervous wreck... but into friday and staurday morning i was almost flawless... its comes down to if you had practice, having consistancy and being able to keeping your cool...

*edit* also team 69's hp... awsome job man

[MissInformation]

Originally Posted by KenWittlief

maybe teams that designed a bot to hang or cap, didnt bother to build a goal or to have students practice shooting, since they will only have 3 balls in their corral if their bot can herd the cat-balls?

we should take a poll - on how many teams did students actually practice shooting into the official goal?

Our human player went over to the practice field on Thursday evening to practice, and our bot is designed to hang and cap (we can herd in a very limited fashion). After our human player won the position, he had to practice shooting, along with the two back-up shooters, at every meeting. And I know he plans on practicing between now and Annapolis. By the time the top 8 teams were thinking about alliances, our human player hadn't missed a single shot in four rounds. And both of the rounds our alliance won in the quarter finals were won by 5 points (1 ball). I bet a lot of human players, after seeing/hearing about the first Regional competitions are doing some practicing...

Heidi

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Larry proves short people can shoot

[Alex Salomonsky]

I'd have to say that my team's(769) shooter was a beast. Nick missed only 2 shots all competition, i watched him, so this is pretty accurate. Most games he had only the 3 at the beginning, but he won us 1 or two of our games ( the others our allainces did and i give props to those teams).

The best shooter at VCU had to be the Killer Bees (#33) mainly because he had the most oppurtunities at shooting, but he didn't miss that much, so team 33's shooter, you're a BEAST.

[IMDWalrus]

It all depends on the team's strategy - if they aren't worried about shooting and have chosen to hang immediately, it doesn't matter quite as much if the human player is talented or not.

During 818's human player tryouts, I made zero of ten shots. Zero. (I blame it on the fact that I'm only 5'5".) Needless to say, I won't be our human player this year...

[Mike K]

Kevin (our HP) was very good and for being his first time. He won us most of our matches and the trophy we won at VCU was manly from him (very accurate made almost all balls given to him, and that was a lot) and some good driving done by us and partners.

Also the HP for our team had to be good because of our robots ball handling device, so he has practiced with the drive crew before ship and also when he was not programming. It also helps that he is very tall. He could reach over the player station if he had to.

I can't speack for him but thanks all. See ya in Nationals, Detriot, or Canada!

[Solace]

we lost one of our matches at NJ by 15 points. our HP missed 2 out of the 9 shots that he took. our alliance partner missed...................eight. yes ladies in gentlemen, that's right, they missed 8 shots. they must have had at least 13 tries, too. very frustrating.

[GBJedi375]

I know that sometimes our human shooter wouldn't shoot untill he had at least 4 balls, this way he got into his "groove" That can possibly explain it.

[minic@HYPER69]

I just wanted to give a shout out to the human player from 126 at the NH Regionals! I dont think she ever missed a single shot! You were great!!!

Good Job!

[DirtyBird213]

Our HP rarely missed. We did not have that many opportunities to shoot beyond the three at beginning of match. One thing that stands out is in the quarter final match where we won 145-140 our HP made a shot at our mobile goal that was beyond the center line in opponents end, and he hit it to give us the win in the match and to force a 3rd match! He was forced to shot for that after we had capped the fixed goal on our way to hanging. We ended match with 4 robots on bar.