week 1: Three Things I've Learned

[Donut]

I'll throw in the 3 things that surprised me alot:

1. Alot of teams underestimated the task of getting a ball off of the overpass. There were matches where an entire alliance would take more than 30 seconds to actually get a ball down to score with. I expected teams would have trouble controlling balls on the ground, but not even being able to get them on the ground?

2. Bonus points are making quite a difference in some matches. Teams are leaving free points up for the opposition when they could run one less lap and lose 2 points in order to remove 12 points from their opponents.

3. There's no herding going on. I saw 111 herd a ball across rather than hurdling it once, and witnessed one other team herd a ball once or twice, but that's the only herding I ever saw from the webcast. From those few instances of herding I can also say this; the idea that hurdlers can "herd if necessary" didn't appear to be true, as most who tried to failed to get even one herding point.