Season 4 Episode 11 - Week 1 Regionals

[Jeff Rodriguez]

This week we’ve got Greg and Jeff along with Rich Kressly from team 1712, Andy Grady from team 131, and Travis Hoffman from team 48.
We’re talking about some of the week one regionals including Washington DC, New Hampshire, Buckeye, Midwest and New Jersey.
How easy is this game to follow from a spectator point of view? We don’t think it’s that easy. There’s just too much going on for a casual audience member to follow.
We’re also talking about some field troubles and glitches that come with a new control system tested for the first time, including the problems that happened in New Hampshire.
Being the first week, and the first time we’ve seen real matches played, we’ve got some observations about how the game plays out. How effective is pinning? Where did robots get pinned? How were the prolific scoring machines doing it? Did traction control actually make a difference? What ever happened to the fears of the withholding allowance? Was G14 that big a deal?
Team 2753, Overdrive, also caught the attention of many in their rookie season. Not only are they rookies, but they we’re number one seed and went on to win New Jersey. What do they have in store for us next?


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[Tom Schindler]

Greg/Jeff/Rich/Andy/Travis,

I enjoyed listening to your thoughts on the first week. Keep up the good work, i feel a lot of good information about the events we could not attend was disseminated, as well as a number of good strategies discussed.

Anyone who wants to have an edge on the competition should have a listen to this. The bit about 40's swerve drive defense is going to be key in the coming weeks.

Tom

[kristenliz_28]

Thanks or the discussion of the New Hampshire, I liked your analysis of the first and second alliance pairings, and the discussion of field watering xD