Changes over the years?

[Chris Hibner]

Originally Posted by EricH

Chris, I distinctly remember no backup battery in 2003. Those came on board in 2004, when C did.

Oh, yeah, and with those rankings, how was 2001 scored?

Dang, I could have sworn it was 2003 with the backup battery. The given reason behind the backup was the controller brown-outs - I'm pretty sure of that, but I thought they happened in 2002, not 2003. Oh well.

In 2001, all of the teams got their alliance's score for the match with one exception: the big multiplier balls. Every team was assigned a color prior to the match. If your team's large multiplier ball (the large balls were colored to correspond to the 4 robot colors) was on top of a goal, your team got a bonus for that match. I want to say it was an additional 10%, but since my team didn't handle the big balls that year the bonus wasn't that important to me (at least that's how I'm explaining my poor memory).