Who has successfully THROWN ringers on to the rack yet?

[Taylor]

Have any ringers been negated by human players?

[cziggy343]

Originally Posted by boiler

Have any ringers been negated by human players?

not at vcu. there were only a couple of times that spoilers were even on the field. and at vcu, most of the tube scoring was done on your own side, making it pretty much impossible to put a spoiler on it.

[mayhemscout1519]

Have any ringers been negated by human players?

For this reason, throwing ringers towards the rack when there are a good number of ringers already on the rack is quite dangerous! The reason is two ringers of the same color on the same spider leg equals no ringers on the spider leg!

To answer the question, I saw a total of probably 5 or 6 ringers scored by human players during GSR (practice matches, qualification matches, and elims). This is actually a pretty low percentage considering how many human players were trying this strategy. So, I would say less than 5% of the thrown ringers were successfully scored on the rack through the act of being thrown.

151 and 166 had the two most successful human players at GSR, in my opinion. Our team hasn't kept track of human player scoring this year, so I don't have any actual statistics.

[dcbrown]

Team 166's player at GSR had a particularly consistent flat throw going. She obviously spent a lot of time practicing and the tubes tended not to tilt and veer off like most other throws seen.

[zander_108]

got a couple of them thrown onto the rack as a matter of fact. One of them i threw so hard that it landed on the top spider leg on the other side....

[Vikesrock]

Our human player threw one onto the top spider leg to win our first qualifying match 4-2. He also managed to get a couple spoilers over the rack and into the opponents home zone.

[NeedMoreEngines]

the closest thing I've ever seen was a human player throw a tetra onto the top of the rack and have it bounce/fall through the inner spiders all the way to the bottom.

[mizscience]

Our alliance partner 86's human player, Mark, managed to get 2 on [during different matches] during the finals rounds at the Florida Regional this weekend. It was awesome seeing it happen in real time, and later on video.

[Dgrez]

Does anyone want to organize a drive team skillz challenge .

[Nawaid Ladak]

i want a ring toss.

lets say at championship, on Saturday during lunch or something, on one of the practice fields. that would be so much fun.

qualifications on all the fields, or we could just do it by team in real game play.

RING TOSS 2007 I VOTE YES

[Dgrez]

Human Player Skillz Challenge 07: Be there or get tossed

I don't know if we'll need qualification considering i don't think too many people would do it. Maybe we could have it in an around the world type format, winner gets a golden inner tube.

[fluffy]

Originally Posted by NeedMoreEngines

the closest thing I've ever seen was a human player throw a tetra onto the top of the rack and have it bounce/fall through the inner spiders all the way to the bottom.

a tetra?!?!
a ringer would be more like it me thinks
watching the webcasts, I've seen many a tube fall through the rack to their final resting place at the bottom

[65_Xero_Huskie]

At GLR there was someone who could throw tubes on almost consistently. I dont remember who it was tho >_>

[The Lucas]

At FLR, I saw a human player throw a tube that knocked a tube out of the gripper of an opposing robot. How is that for a "spoiler". Anyone else see that happen during a match?

[GaryVoshol]

Originally Posted by 65_Xero_Huskie

At GLR there was someone who could throw tubes on almost consistently. I dont remember who it was tho >_>

If by "consistently" you mean more than a single fluke, I might agree. But seeing all matches - practice, qualifications, and eliminations - I could probably count all the thrown ringers scored without removing my shoes and socks. I don't think they were all done by the same person.