1/21/2014 Day 17: A Breather

Today was the break after the marathon day, and consisted of mostly using it as a break and seeing if any teams created anything that may be useful to learn from.  As a whole, most of the videos of team's shooters were just so-so, and mostly consisted of teams making shots from ranges between 9' and 14', but Team 842 (Falcon Robotics from Carl Hayden High School in Phoenix, Arizona) did release a video showing off a 10 second cycle and consistent shot from the same distance, which definitely changes strategy up quite a bit. This would mean they could score nearly 150 points on their own, which is more than 5 full 2-robot cycles. Judging from the video, a lot of previous strategy discussions will start becoming useless, and a lot of defensive strategies will most likely start forming.