CALIFORNIA?

[Doug G]

Originally Posted by Chris Fultz

Hey, do California people post on CD anymore?

Anyone have a status on the CA regional this weekend?

I don't have a lot of specifics, but at the Sacramento (UC Davis) Regional, Teams 56, 973, 254, 114, 599, 1097 seem to be doing very well - forgive me if I'm leaving some teams out. One thing I noticed that is a huge deal is the amount of penalties. Luckily we have yet to draw a penalty, however, we've been allied with a few teams who weren't that familiar with the rules, especially harassing robots around the loading zones, and the human player not standing in their loading area when placing a tetra. I bet half of the first 20 matches had scores less that 10 points if not zero. There were a couple of zero point ties as well. I kinda sucks for your team if you do happen to when, but the opposing alliance commits so many penalties who get a very low QP score which lowers you in the tier rankings. In one match a robot flipped our robot with their wedge and committed several other penalties - so we one but with a QP of zero and had to fix our arm. Luckily we got it back together to play again.

We played eight matches today. In one match, Team 254's alliance got 77 points, which I think was the highest match score of the day. Beach Bots mentor received a well deserved WFA.

Anyhow, big surprise to me was the amount of penalties and low scores. No teams used the camera, and a couple of teams capped in auto mode with a starting tetra.