Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

Hello! I'm interested in knowing what the best alliances (the 3 top-seeded at the end of eliminations) are made of based on what you've seen in Week 1 Regionals so far. What kind of robots are they generally made of? Shooters, catchers, defenders, a mix of all three? Thanks!

Re: Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

In southfield district

1.scorer/catcher and truss shooter/scorer and defense

2.scorer and scorer and scorer

Re: Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

So if I understand right, 1 and 2 are the two top-seeded and a cooperative team beat out a team with three functional shooters?

Re: Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

Centerline:

Winning (8):

4779: Shooter(no intake), 453: defense, 3667: shooter

Finalists (6):

815: Shooter, 3175: Shooter/Defense, 280: Shooter

Re: Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

1 was the the number one alliance and the winners. One robot played defense the whole time. Another robot hit truss shots and cleaned up misses. The third team did most of the scoring and could catch.
2. was the number 7 alliance and the finalists. We were one of those 3 scorers and our main strategy was 3 assists and a low goal score. All 3 of us could do a high goal scoring and truss shots but we decided to go with quick, efficient 3 assist cycles.

Re: Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

Opinion after observation:
A good "clean up" robot that can either pick up quickly or herd into the low goal quickly - for when the perfect strategy goes wrong. A great throw or high goal robot is excellent, but when the ball goes on the floor time starts to tick.

Re: Ingredients of a Winning Alliance
 

One great shooter, one robot with great truss shot, and one battering ram :D