What did you learn in todays scrimmages?

[Kyle Fenton]

Well I was at the Quincy scrimmage today and here is some of things I noticed.

*Almost all of the robots were similar in design and in functionality.

*The only auto mode I saw was capping the tetra they had in the beginning of the match, which caused the magnet tetra to fall.

*This is one of those rare years were operators have to be careful and look out for robots, because their long arms with tetras on them can cause them to swing a tetra behind the glass, if the arm is high enough.

*No one went for the end zone, they scored tetras until the end

*Getting rid of the vision tetras off the floor in the beginning of the match proved very useful

* Being fast and maneuverable is very good advantage

*The center goal seems to be worth scoring it, if you have the time.

Here is one of my team matches from Today. It isn't our best, just the first one I pulled from my camera.

http://www.rhodewarrior.org/121Match.mov

One other thing. I didn't realize this, but it seems that this years OI doesn't switch channels, even with a dongle on. It seems that the only work around was to flip the most significant bit (the bit farthest to the left in the team number on the OI) on