Question of the Week!!! (6/3/04)

[Joe3]

Originally Posted by sigmakid108

I would have allowed the robots to score the 5 pt. balls.

I agree that this could have improved the game. Another thing I thought off is taking another spin off of 2001, and have different colored balls. There would be two alliance colored balls, and the one on top could remain the same (yellow). The red alliance ball would start on the blue mobile goal, and vice versa. A team could their ball on top of one of their goals for a 2x, or cap one of the other team's goals to "steal" the points (small ball value only).

[Steve W]

My only issue was the long time period before ball drop. I probably would have given 25 points for getting the yellow ball in auton mode and dropped all the balls 10 seconds after end of auton mode if they had not been released. One thing that I didn't like about this year was time outs.

Edit - Timeouts slowed down the game and took away momentum with the croud. As an announcer it was very difficult to keep things on a high level when there is a 15 minute delay. (2 + 6 + 1 + 6)

[Andy Grady]

Originally Posted by Steve W

My only issue was the long time period before ball drop. I probably would have given 25 points for getting the yellow ball in auton mode and droped all the balls 10 seconds after end of auton mode if they had not been released. One thing that I didn't like about this year was time outs.

It was better when the balls would drop early in the round. Maybe the better course of action would have been to make the outside balls worth 25 points each and once autonomous mode ended, take them off the posts, while having the balls drop right from the begining.

I disagree with ya on the time outs however. I was happy to see them return this year, and I feel that they are a good thing to have in these games which can be very destructive towards a machine.

-Andy Grady