Regional Updates?????

[Kyle Hill]

From the SBPLI Long Island Regional..
-First place after Friday (7 rounds) is 496 with ~80 points. The top eight are all around 70.

-Goal-bots are more prevalent than ball-bots - about a 3:1 ratio. The top four consists of three goal handlers and a hybrid (yay, us). The best robots are the goal manipulators, with two or three exceptions.

-There's still no shooting machines. =(

-There is one robot which is straight out of Battlebots - its basically a wedge. However, it attempted get under another robot and flip it, at which point every referee on the field threatened to DQ it. (I think they might go with a different robot strategy next time.)

-All of the robots in the field seem to be a bit slower here than their counterparts at KSC.

-224 has a nifty setup - it looks (and maneuvers) like an oversized shopping cart, but it can suck up, hold, and dump en masse about 15-20 balls. I have a feeling they'll make the elim rounds really interesting.