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Re: Einstein 2014

I must say drawing a parallel from being a college sports fan specifically college football.

I and everyone else around me had the same euphoric feeling you get during awesome plays and close games that in that last final that you had us all on our feet for the last minute of the F-3 match. We were in the nosebleeds and it still had that overwhelming effect. I'm not sure how common that is for an Einstein final, but it was for me that's the best there has been.

Re: Einstein 2014

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Originally Posted by ejSabathia (Post 1380050)

In the end I don't know if we would have made the shots w/o 2848's block, I know we had made and missed once before without it, and that something had to happen to try and stop 1114 from gaining position on us in F3.

That decision probably was the difference. Two of your balls were deflected by 1114, and if Simbotics could have gotten over just a couple more inches those balls would have been on the field with a likely repeat of F2. Great assessment and adjustment.

Re: Einstein 2014

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Originally Posted by Jared Russell (Post 1380107)

We flat out missed the first ball in F2.

I have to agree with Jared, from my perspective down on the field, I don't think we interfered with the poofs auto in F2 aside from forcing them to use the riskier low goal auto.

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Originally Posted by Michael Corsetto (Post 1380060)

This move in F3 was one of the greatest strategic maneuvers in FRC history. I remember watching the Curie Alliance set up those three robots and telling Ben (1114 Drive Coach) something like "dude, I think they're trying to block your goalie, what's our move?" What a mind game!

In all three of the finals match, our goalie strategy was to let the poofs make the first move, as we weren't sure if they would go to the non-hot goal (hot for the second half of auto), or our claw side goal, as that side was more difficult for us to defend. Unfortunately for us, that ended up being the same side in all three matches.

For the mind game in F3, as Mike said, we anticipated the attempted block by 2848. Our strategy that match was to drive directly in front of them, and then let the poofs make the first move. The idea here was if we committed to one side or the other, 2848 would have cut us off from half of the field, so we decided to drive in front of them, so we still had the ability to go both directions after the poofs started to drive toward one of the low goals.