Did Lunacy really level the playing field?

[ShaunT]

Originally Posted by Jon Jack

18" of carpet is not enough carpet to give a pinned team any kind of traction advantage. Look at how many 'shut down' pins there were this year. It's not like the drivers just simply let go of the controls and said 'oh well, we're done'.

That depends on how you get pinned. If you get pinned into one of the alliance station foam pads, you are stuck there until an alliance partner peels off the pinner. However, in the middle along the sides 18" is plenty of carpet to keep from being pinned. If you are sitting at one of the ends of the field you are just asking for trouble.

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Even Beatty and WildStang had some trouble maneuvering around GOOD opponents.

Maneuvering in the open field and maneuvering out of pins are two completely different situations.