Originally Posted by Jibri Wright (Post 1258050)

The reason why we were the blockers was because we got inspected Thursday with the detachable blocker and it was already built. If you watch seeding match 2, that's when we first used it catching 2512 totally off guard. We were attempting to make a blocker for 2010 but we couldn't make a blocker that blocks from two directions in time.
The reason we needed a two-directional blocker like the one we had is because we found that defensive robots protecting a full court shooter tend to force a bot to turn sideways.
Not only that but we lost the quarterfinals in Milwaukee due to not efficiently blocking a full court shooter. Over spring break our driver and I, (our shooter) practiced some defensive strategies against full court shooters and a defensive bot. We had the most experience against them on our alliance.

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright (Post 1258050)

The reason why we were the blockers was because we got inspected Thursday with the detachable blocker and it was already built. If you watch seeding match 2, that's when we first used it catching 2512 totally off guard. We were attempting to make a blocker for 2010 but we couldn't make a blocker that blocks from two directions in time.
The reason we needed a two-directional blocker like the one we had is because we found that defensive robots protecting a full court shooter tend to force a bot to turn sideways.
Not only that but we lost the quarterfinals in Milwaukee due to not efficiently blocking a full court shooter. Over spring break our driver and I, (our shooter) practiced some defensive strategies against full court shooters and a defensive bot. We had the most experience against them on our alliance.

Originally Posted by neshera (Post 1259192)

A big congratulations to the winning alliance, FIRST Teams 71, 2512 and 2709. This alliance really showed the synergy that makes a Champion alliance. None of the teams was the highest ranked, but having the decimating cross-field shooter, a splendid robot to defend the cross-field shooter, and a robot with excellent field scoring capability and a reliable 30 point climb freed up by the first two robots proved to be an unbeatable combination. Very well done, and it was exciting being beaten by you! I suspect we will see this type of alliance(s) on Einstein.