Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

Strategy.

Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

A highly effective scouting team in which the logistics of every match is carefully gathered, verified and computed into a general match strategy. The drive team is briefed in the beginning of each match by scouting on the strengths and weaknesses of friends and opponents, while being de-briefed after each match on observations of successful and unsuccessful game play.

[tangent]A bayesian inference will be used to predict the outcome of every match based on past conditions and strategies used.[/tangent]

Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

The winning alliance leading team will have a thorough understanding of how different robots complement their robot, and be able to select these robots.

If the top 2 teams qualify exceptionally well due to their vision tetra capability, picking each other would not necessarily serve them well.

Strategy will be key, and the teams that can extend strategy to team selection will do well.

Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

more wins.....

Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

Reliability. This is more important this year.

More matches, more robots, more action... those who don't breakdown and still can do things well will be the ones who end up on top.

Andy B.

Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

We had that last year and we still lost in the quarters to the eventual national champions =P

In short, I don't believe this year will be radically different in terms a winning alliance; cooperation, communication and a healthy desire to play a heavy contact/daring strategy will always be a force to be dealt with. The biggest change is the addition of the third robot, IMO. It will be interesting to see if the power trannies will prove their mettle in clearing the way for another alliance partner to cap, or indeed, capping themselves.

Re: What will the winners have over the rest of us
 

I haven't seen anyone say that rows will win, so I will say it. At least at scrimmage level, row-bots will win. At Chatsworth scrimmage, the number one seed (and eventual winner) focused on rows in an unusual way. And, BTW, experience may not help. :ahh: This team, 1638, was a rookie. they won because they went for the row, then the points. 1 row = 3 tetras on top + 1 tetra on bottom pointwise, if the four tetras aren't already in a row (which adds more points).