We almost lost our 1st match of the semi-finals at the Montreal regional last week because of Team 1517 impressive human player, who remarkably threw 3 discs in a row in the 2 pts goal! :ahh:
876’s HP was ridiculously good and Northern Lights. One match he threw 4 discs, the 1st went into the right side 2 point goal, the next just missed the 3 point goal, the 3rd went into the 3 point goal, and the 4th went into the left side 2 point goal. These didn’t look random either it looked like he was aiming at each goal he threw at. He also made several more in the 3 point goal throughout the comp.
Our human player managed to make 13 shots over the course of CVR. 5 three pointers, and 8 two pointers, nothing game changing but it may be in the future if the matches are closer.
I’m not certain it’s well known, but I’m 90% positive that in the closest high scoring match of the Finger Lakes Regional, the 113:112 match, the Human player from team 250 made two goals!! (I am 100% certain that he made two in a match, and I’m 90% certain *(http://www.flickr.com/photos/kimsrobot/8549458743/in/set-72157632975431016) just after that [he had 3 disks] - just my brain is 10% fuzzy on if it was the same match :D) I unfortunately cannot tell from the video posted to TBA if the HP made it… But you can see in the photo before it, he had a stack of 3, and you can see one in the air from the other HP (which I think you see the other kid throw in the TBA video) - and none are visible on the ground in front of the red goals… so even if he made 1/3, he still technically “won” the match for the team I remember him being very good, so it wouldn’t surprise me! Unfortunately that alliance lost the next two matches, so I guess he didnt change the fate of the Regional
If that isn’t inspiration to get out there and practice your hammer throws, Im not sure what is!!
All in all, I was incredibly impressed with a lot of the HP’s at Finger Lakes - there were several that could make at least one in a match! And I wouldnt be surprised if there were more stories from there of HPs winning the matches. I hope to see more great HPs at upcoming events!*
In Orlando finals, match 2: 744 79 and 1772 won by 2 points (97-95), pushing it to a rubber match. The human players made one 3 point and one 2 point shot in this match. This alliance then went on to win the third match and the regional. Talk about clutch!
Note: I’m not sure which human player or which two human players scored the shots. But I will throw in a shameless plug for 744’s, because he has some amazing accuracy!
In Finals 3 at WPI, our HP made a 3-pt shot that (had one of our robots been called as hanging rather than not because of a frisbee beneath a robot) would have won the regional for us.
At greater Kansas city my team was down by 11, we got our 10 pt climber at last second, and at 2 seconds I hit a 2 pointer making us win, I’m not even a frisbee player and at one point I was hitting a 2 pointer a match, I think the human player could determine lower scoring matches in future matches.
Also I almost made the pyramid 4 times during kc, best to hit it low.
But i also saw that a lot of larger scoring games were won by more than 10