What are the highest scores this year? Watching the VCU webcast, and the highest there is only 130. Theoretically, the highest possible winning score would be 380/375. (This would give you a win and the 375 ranking pts.) I’m sorta dissapionted that teams are struggling to break 100. I think human players need some more practice shootin’ hoops.
They’ve had a couple of 170’s in Portland
I think i saw a 5-15 match in a webcast yesterday. I think that was the lowest i’ve seen. But other than that, nothing really specail aobut the scores.
Do scores have to be high to be exciting? The final match at VCU was awesome…Final score came out as 45-40. Both teams had many previous rounds that they managed over 100. This was by far the best round I observed.
We won one 5-0.
Thanks to penalities we managed to win, otherwise we would have lost.
But it killed our ranking points =/
At GSR I think it was about 150. We had a 140-something match, and a 130-50 match.
At richmond, I believe the highest for a team was 140, but their opponent only had 70 points. However, I believe the highest combined score was 125-120 when all 4 bots hung on the bar. Please correct me if I am wrong.
140-145 at BAE with teams… 40, 138, 213, and 319 I think.
The highest at richmond was int he finals when the alliance had 140. The highest overral match score in VCU was 125-120 when the 4 of us hung on the bar.(yay, we can hang!) Thats the only time all four robots hung in any of the regionals thusfar. Most of the winning scores in the qualifiers were in the 60s.
in NJ the highest I saw was 140-something other then that a lot didn’t really break a hundred. Friday was relatively a lower scoring day then Saturday.
Highest at BAE was 150 pts.
I think the reason a lot of high scores aren’t being had is because most teams cant effectively get the small balls to the HP’s. I thought many more bots would concentrate on small balls, but most are bar hangers. Only 3 robots could pick up the small balls and carry them around in NJ. Herders/pushers just didnt seem effective enough. Small balls are the basis of the game to some. Its a Bar VS Ball game this year.
The high score on Friday in NJ was 140.
It was tied on Saturday during a finals match, and not to be outdone, one of the teams that made the 140 score on friday had a score of 150 on Saturday!
(BTW, it was us… but it was scored aligned with different partners each time though!)
Yeah there were two that were 170 in Portland, one was without anyone on the bar, just both goals filled and capped.
The other i think was with two hangers and some scored balls, im not entirely shure though since i didnt see it.
The reason for the low scores isnt usually because of bad shooters, many teams including us had 90+ percent shooters, it was a matter of getting the balls to the shooters that was limiting.
Basically hanging was the big points and the balls were the tie-breaker if each side had a hanging robot, although occasionally there were three on the bar
134 also had 2 rounds with scores around 145 and there were two 150 point rounds i believe and i think 1 160 point match…i could be wrong
-Pat
I believe the highest score I saw at Manchvegas was about 150. I did miss a few matches whilst preparing to be human player, but I’m fairly sure no one went much higher than that.
On Thursday, during the practice rounds, an alliance of us (Team 1073) and Team Hyper 69 scored well over 200 points during the 2 minute limit. Our robot herded an ungodly amount of balls (it can do four at a time very well) to me and Joe (the hyper human player), and we filled up the stationary goal. That was capped by Hyper. They then hung. Joe and I then proceeded to fill up the mobile goal. Though there was no official tally, I counted the number of balls roughly and the final score was over 200 points.
Man, we were a good alliance. Unfortunately, they were seeded second, and we were seeded ninth, and when 501 (1st seed) picked Hyper, we were bumped up, and therefore unable to be chosen. Hyper’s robot played in all of the finals matches and the alliance of Hyper, The Power Knights, and Team 176 eventually won Manchvegas.
But yeah…that was the highest I’ve seen so far…
–Petey
Yeah, i thought of that after I posted, of course. Didn’t mean to insult any HP’s out there. Most that I saw on the webcast were real good, and consistent, they just ran out of balls.
Which is why our robot did so well (9th seed, 5-2-1 record)–because our efficient and effective ball herding system consistently got our alliance 8 to 15 balls per match and allowed us to match up well with anyone who could cap and/or hang.
Our losses came when we were matched with non-cappers/hangers or with cappers/hangers who couldn’t work. We were looking forward to nationals, where we figured that all of the teams that made it that far would be able to cap/hang consistently, but we lost in the finals after we were bumped up to seventh seed. Oh well 
–Petey
I was in the pits most of the time at Manchester, but didn’t even realize that we may have had THE highest score at the regional. We won a match with 176, 150-100 on Saturday.
My team, 492 and team 1031 combined to tie the high score on Saturday at the Pacific Northwest Regional in Portland, Oregon. We did it with one robot hanging, 12 balls in the big goal, and the big goal capped. Needless to say, our human players rocked, and pretty much everything went perfectly that round.
Interestingly, we were against our second alliance partner that round. Our next match, we were against 1031, and they nearly tipped us over, after which we prevented them from hanging for only the second time during qualifications.
The other round in which 170 points were scored in portland involved a team getting a small goal under the ball release and removing the big ball, and getting both the big and little goals capped at the end. That was a fun match to watch as well.
Here is a picture of our score. You can look around the gallery to see pictures of Atlas, our robot, collecting balls and capping goals.
Winning here secured enough money for us to attend the Championship event… see you all there, hopefully.
~Ryan