Both alliances sitting in endzone with 10 seconds left?

[Mike Soukup]

I saw a few matches at KSC, enough to get me thinking, where both teams went to their endzones with 10 seconds left and sat there. None of the robots moved, except for an isolated victory dance.

I know the coaching box is confusing and the game moves at a fast pace, I've been there. But how could the losing team not know they were losing? And if they knew they were losing, why didn't they push one or both of the unattended goals out of scoring position for an easy win?

Did these teams calculate that they could get more QP by losing and getting their own points than by winning and getting 3x their opponent's decreased score? Or did they simply not know what the score was?

I know coaching will improve as the coaches & drivers get more practice, but I was totally surprised by what I saw.

Mike

Quote of the day by the KSC announcer: "Team 654 isn't going anywhere....because they have no wheels. Otherwise it's a perfect running robot"