Curie 2010!

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by sircedric4

I know that we're a happy team right now. After an entire build season of effort and drive, we finally got to see our looper in action with some good alliance partners. We started in the opponent's home zone, kicked two balls out in autonomous, just barely missed the third ball, crossed the hump and headed over to our tower and deployed our looping design features.

We locked our handcuffs to the tower, deployed our drawbridge with deflector and deployed our poptop. We got a chance to loop 7 balls throughout the game and we are just so happy to see our design realized and for it to perform like we designed it. :-) We have seen our kicker and possessor work for 17+ games now but finally got to see the looper system work. Qualifier 32 is my favorite game of ours right now.

Curie is turning out to be a fun division and we are looking forward to day 2. Good luck to all out there.

I watched that match, and loved it! Your looper is just so beautiful in action, with the curve!

[thefro526]

I think that Barry Bonzack should be announcer in Curie at least once. Just saying.

[E.L.I.T.E. 48]

I don't know, with all the attention on 1114 and 469 I have a feeling that someone is going to catch them by surprise. I don't know who or when, but it should be fun to watch as it plays out.
Good luck everyone

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by E.L.I.T.E. 48

I don't know, with all the attention on 1114 and 469 I have a feeling that someone is going to catch them by surprise. I don't know who or when, but it should be fun to watch as it plays out.
Good luck everyone

With 469 seeded in the high 20's, I think they may be out of the running for #1 seed.

[Ty Tremblay]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

With 469 seeded in the high 20's, I think they may be out of the running for #1 seed.

I haven't been able to watch the webcast yet. Can anyone tell me why 469 isn't seeding as high as expected? I know its early, and that things can change, but are teams playing more defense? Are they malfunctioning? Or are they just getting unlucky with their alliance partners?

I also know that, barring malfunctioning or an effective stopper strategy, it really doesn't matter where 469 seeds. As long as a strong offensive robot selects them, they'll go far.

[vhcook]

Originally Posted by Ty Tremblay

I haven't been able to watch the webcast yet. Can anyone tell me why 469 isn't seeding as high as expected? I know its early, and that things can change, but are teams playing more defense? Are they malfunctioning? Or are they just getting unlucky with their alliance partners?

I've seen them having to pull out of looping position and play regular due to a lack of ammo a few times. Looks like they've run into some ball starvation D. Some of their alliance partners have also had bad matches.

Curie's had a lot of high scoring, close matches, so it's taking a lot of seeding points to get up in the top.

[dag0620]

On the webcast the audio is sorta messed up for Curie right now

[Grim Tuesday]

Holy $@#$@#$@#$@#, did you see match 100?

1114+469 6V0

[Vikesrock]

1114 goes 6v0 in match 100 against 469 and they score 32 balls!

The human players couldn't quite keep up so the 469 alliance picked up 3 DOGMA penalties.

[engunneer]

Well match 100 was certainly interesting. 29-0 (after 3 penalties) in the first true 6v0 I've seen.

Wow.

[Joe G.]

If that was a preview of the eliminations....that was a bit scary.....

[dag0620]

32 scores intially, and a final score of 29!!!!! Amazing!!!! That for me was the match of the year.

[Grim Tuesday]

IT was hardly 6v0, it was pretty much just the blu alliance keeping out of the way

[Vikesrock]

Originally Posted by Grim Tuesday

IT was hardly 6v0, it was pretty much just the blu alliance keeping out of the way

That's not really true. 4v0 may be more accurate but 1114 certainly scored quite a few goals and moved quite a few balls up. It may have looked like they weren't doing anything sometimes because they were being careful not to block any of 469's shots. They would wait for a gap, the plow the misses into the goal.

The other 2 blue robots were blocking their goals to assure the 0 for the red alliance.

Mark, the Simbotics wasn't doing that just to put on a show. They likely felt that they going 6v0 and getting a guaranteed ~30 pts. was the better move to help them seed high versus taking the chance of playing the match out against 111 and 469 and risking a much lower score if they lost.

Note I am just speculating on the above, I have no inside knowledge of 1114 strategy.

[GearsOfFury]

Totally agree, didn't mean to say they were just doing it for show. I just think they were doing pretty well in seeding without this match, and probably would still have ended up #1 or #2 with the way they were going - with the chance for maintaining a perfect season