pyop (post your own plays)
 

hey i am strategy sub-team leader of a rookie team. i was wonderig if there was any plays that we could use for a play book were developing. we have a few simple strategies but not many creative ones.

Re: pyop (post your own plays)
 

Well I dont have any thing specific but my advice would be find the kid on your team who is best at chess (easy way to find this person is bring a chess board to along meeting, the best person will likly to be the first to ask to play) And let him or her try to come up with stratagies, both games require simmilar types of thinking.

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also for this years game just tell the kids to play Tic-Tac-Toe and set up a whole tourney for fun and see who has the best ideas on how to win tic tac toe and ask them to join your strategy team and get em with that chess master.

Re: pyop (post your own plays)
 

Wankoff, way to get other people to do your work. I suggest browsing around on your own to find those plays, and maybe we'll bring in a chess board or play tic-tac-toe on Monday. Talk to you later.

Re: pyop (post your own plays)
 

I dont see how a tourney would do any good...Tic-Tac-Toe is a mathmatically impossible game to lose.

Google it :D

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I'm not going to lie, I was in band one day and I played out tic tac toe enough to figure out how to not ever lose.

My spatial skills being what they are, I immediately forgot.

Re: pyop (post your own plays)
 

Then grab an instrument and figure it out again. ;)

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Every good coach in sports has a "playbook" with some tried and true "flea-flicker" or "hail-mary" plays as well as some creative original ones.

But there really aren't any "canned" plays for FIRST Robotics because so much of each match is dependant on what you and the other TWO teams can pull-off as an alliance.

Instead, consider making a bunch of copies of THIS 11"x17" paper field drawing (without all the dimension lines). You can doodle BEFORE a championship and come up with a whole lot of "plays" to practice (e.g. offensive/defensive) and you and your new-found collaborators can do the same at the regionals. I also made a large-scale drawing of the field (go to the white paper section of this forum) which you can layout on a tabletop with soda straw tetras.