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Posted by Joe Johnson, Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Automotive Systems.

Posted on 4/26/99 8:14 PM MST


In Reply to: Valid problem. Valid solution? posted by Daniel on 4/26/99 7:45 PM MST:



I can't confirm it, but I have heard that one team at the Nationals was literally a box with wheels. No motors, no wires, not even a battery or control box!

Is this right?

Teams that had to be paired with this team had no chance of scoring more than 180 points and most likely would even have a hard time doing that against any two 1/2 way decent teams.

I know of teams that had 0 partners out of 6 get on the puck, while they got on the puck every time in addition to getting the 2 point doubler every time. Others had the exact opposite.

I am not complaining, I am just pointing out that the luck of the draw played a bigger role than ever in determining the top 16 teams.

The picking of alliance partners leveled this out in many cases, but there are cases like the TRW team (and Boston Edison/Plymouth North and others), where things didn't really work out so very well.

I don't really have a solution, but I think that this is a topic that there should be open discussion about.

What do you think?

Joe J.