It's a fuzzy cloudy world
As you can see from the poll results (they are about 50% for and 50% against) everything about this year's game is well, cloudy. Probably making it a brilliant game. During qualification there are so many options and the score of the game can change so dramatically with such small movement it's hard to have any sort of feel for the game. At KSC many mathces were very exciting with last minute sprints and 20 and 30 point swings in the last 5 seconds. And yes many matches were boring.
The hard thing is to know what to do and actually do it. It seems to most of us that the scoring and seed position is almost a random sort of all the machines that ran well.
For instance our ComBBAT double goal grabbing machine ran well for all 10 matches. We grabbed 2 goals and controlled them about 4 times. A few mistakes, a few dead partners etcl and we ended up approx 25th! Team 86 (Vistakon ?) can load balls at the rate or near 20/ minute and routine dumped 2 loads of > 10 balls into goals during a match. Guess what. they finished out of the top 8 and were not picked.
This year everything is hard to understand. It's a chess game and the smartest may win!
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