Originally Posted by stufflikethat (Post 1376723)

Hey guys, I have spent a lot of time on TBA just pre scouting for champs and have yet to find a truly fantastic match where one alliance works together around heavy defense and plays the game how the GDC wanted it to be played. If you know of any fantastic matches could we collect them in this thread?

Originally Posted by Kevin Leonard (Post 1376734)

Finger Lakes Finals Match 3
The strategy we worked out finally "clicked" perfectly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSMlad_OMA

Originally Posted by KamalRC (Post 1376724)

Waterloo Semis 2 Match 1

254, 2056, and 865 play the game how I believe the GDC wanted it to be played. They also played well even though they had defense on them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94UGXIq6jUA#t=331

Originally Posted by Kevin Sheridan (Post 1370691)

Here is a link to the match:
http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2014casj_f1m1

1678/368/4171 played excellent defense and forced our alliance to drop points on our cycles throughout the match. On the first cycle we lose out on 20 points when 4171 blocks 1662 from inbounding. On the second cycle we lost out on 10 points because 1678 and 368 played excellent defense on 971 and prevented them from trussing. For the third cycle, the stellar counter defense from 1678 dragged both 254 and 971 into a corner to try to stop 368, causing us to miss another 20 point assist. The most amazing thing is that 1678/368/4171 remained patient and continued to gather 3 assist cycles while playing defense, allowing them to catch up over the course of the whole match. There were amazing plays from the blue alliance in this close match. The fluid transitions from offense to defense and back from both 1678 and 368 were a scary sight to see.

Originally Posted by Iaquinto.Joe (Post 1376762)

MSC QF1-1 Replay 2.

#1 seeded alliance 1718, 67, 74 falls to the #8 seeded alliance 910, 548, 4362. Final score of 210 - 275, no fouls.

Good defense played on both sides. Good offense played by the shooters of both alliances. Quick inbounding on both sides. Differing strategies for both sides. Great match to watch.

Originally Posted by Iaquinto.Joe (Post 1376762)

MSC QF1-1 Replay 2.

#1 seeded alliance 1718, 67, 74 falls to the #8 seeded alliance 910, 548, 4362. Final score of 210 - 275, no fouls.

Good defense played on both sides. Good offense played by the shooters of both alliances. Quick inbounding on both sides. Differing strategies for both sides. Great match to watch.

Originally Posted by itzaklevi (Post 1376813)

Im amazed that no one had mentioned this yet. Prior to this match, there were two matches played, both won by the 8th seed. However, both were declared to have a field fault. Then, they won again. So the 8 seed actually went 3-2 in their quarters, but two of their wins didn't count. And the wins were by very large margins - not just a few points.

Originally Posted by itzaklevi (Post 1376813)

And the wins were by very large margins - not just a few points.

Originally Posted by M. Lillis (Post 1376765)

If you're looking for heavy defense and good strategy, look at the NECMP from week 7. I doubt any other region has more defense than NE.

Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV (Post 1376816)

The previous two matches had pretty glaring field faults in autonomous mode that caused the #1 alliance to miss nearly all their balls and spend time clearing them. The #8 seed did a fantastic job but you shouldn't make it seems like the replays weren't warranted or that the #1 seed didn't deserve to win. The field faults clearly contributed to the very large margins in the first two matches.

Originally Posted by Iaquinto.Joe (Post 1377345)

This is entirely correct, although the #1 alliance DID get to see the #8 alliance's strategy on three occasions, developing a counter-strategy for QF1-2 and QF1-3. I feel like the #8 seed got the short end of the stick here.

Originally Posted by steelerborn (Post 1378650)

Qual 109 on Archimedes was really fun to be a part of.

33 would inbound and truss to the HP.
1671 immediately received and shot the ball across the white zone.
And 1625 did a quick 10 point shot from the red alliance line.

310 points no penalties.

Originally Posted by neshera (Post 1379535)

Video of that match can be seen here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QwqgNls44E

Originally Posted by tickspe15 (Post 1376749)

PNW Champs semi finals or finals.
Auburn District semi finals or Finals

1983 and 1318 worked beautifully together at both auburn and champs to come out with two wins. The duo got lots of practice together at auburn which was for our scouting team to justify picking the ?34? seed as our 1st pick even though they had been plagued with technical problems all weekend and were on nobody else's radar

Originally Posted by EricH (Post 1376759)

I'll throw in the Inland Empire finals. 399 and 1678 and their third partner put on an absolute clinic, including two truss-and-catch in the same cycle.

Originally Posted by zekeF (Post 1381645)

There was quarterfinals 3-1 on curie. There was some defense on both sides,but the most interesting part was the ability for each robot to swap roles on the fly.