How to beat Mechanical Mauraders
 

I am well aware that FIRST emphaises everybody is a winner, But my team has lost to the Mauraders in the semi finals of ( I think) Every competition that both of us have attended. I was just wondering is there any way to beat them or simply just push them. In no way am I dissing the Mauraders they have a truly excellent robot, But does any body know how to beat them.:confused:

i think you guys have an amazing robot and i feel really bad we've kicked you out of the semifinals several times, you deserved to be in those final matches as much as we did..i hope to play w/ you and not against you in the competitions coming up..

"all your off season comp are belong to us"

you guys did have an awesome robot, maybe even better than ours. except i noticed away to greatly improve your pulling power. send me an e-mail at fast_frank88@hotmail.com and i will tell you more about it. sorry about beating you those 3 times, but you guys are great. you congradulated us each time and were still happy. you didn't seem pissed off at all, i know we would have been very angry if the same team beat us 3 times. we had to face 190 3 times in the qualifying matches at mayhem and lost all 3 times.

team 151 is the epitome of gracious professionalism.

Beat us? I think you can beat us! I'm surprised you haven't! but what can I say that my other cohorts haven't already said. You guys always seem happy to be beaten by us! Strategy. Thats all there is. Strategy. And a great team of drivers! and Dunkin Donuts has seemed to power us at times. hmm what else....

Thanx!!
 

You guys rule I hope that we can be partners in the Next summer comp. You guys are going to Battle cry right? See you there:D

no matter how awesome the team there's always a weakness <wink wink>

if you cant find it in the robot, look to strategy

yeah, 271's weakness, at least for SBPLI, was just to reach in and claw out their pnematics system. :D luckily for them, they fixed that little problem :p.

that wasn't funny :(. anyway, we fixed that problem and added some extra protection to all the pneumatics and electronics ;)

props to you guys
 

hey 271,
you guys deserve the biggest congrats for beating us in every comp we have gone too, but like you said in an earlier reply, its all about da strategy. at mayhem we had a driver who was experienced, he was cocky, and made a mistake, everybody makes mistakes. i still think that if 190 hadn't broken its arm off, then i believe that we could have prevented you from stealing our goals and eventually winning mayhem. but hey all power to you for winning, i just hope we don't have to face u guys in the qf's or sf's, but have a great time and kick some more robo-butt, i hope this post doesnt sound offensive, i am not degrading anybody, just giving my two cents worth:)

badjokeguy

sorry. your robot was a good design though, and you managed to fix that problem quickly. i just wish there was a better way to show sarcasm online...

You do it like this:

<SARCASM>The key to beating 271 from Bayshore is to get a bunch of angry peeps from West Islip and beat them down with sticks and stones (and the occasional robot ;) )</SARCASM>

:D

Force is what you seek...
 

Ok so you want some strategy huh ok here we go I'll break it down for you in intervals of thirty seconds.
2:00-1:30 remaining- Team 271 loads and gets balls from the human player it's there design it's what they do LIVE WITH IT!!!
1:30-1:00 remaining- Team 271 looks for a goal this is when the capabilities of their alliance partner comes in if their a goal handling robot you need to deny them a goal if their a goal grabbing robot you need to battle and waste the oppositions time while you control two goals. The more time you waste the less balls they put in. If your robot posesses power like oh say Team 88 who puts robots on their sides in pushing contests then go ahead for a steal. Proceed to do this for the remaining minute then with less then thirty seconds you need to make a judgement call on whether to hang with the goal and push it out of the zone or run back to the endzone although I think 151 you have a tether so it doesn't really matter. Also 151 your a good two goal grabber and I really don't understand why sometimes you play defense you need to lead your alliance I think offensively and insure your alliance two goals. Let your alliance partner play defense for you and then you will be all set. Just remember Saturday what I told you and you can pay me back during the draft.:cool: I'm sorry 271 but strategy is strategy.

Re: Force is what you seek...
 

in case you didn't see at mayhem, we pulled 190 up on their side too, we were pulling, you were pushing. that was teamwork. and at that time we were only running on 1/2 power. we are completely rebuilding our drive system for battle cry so we will always be operating with 100% power. it will be bullet proof! we just gotta pull a few more all-nighters and it will be done...

Are you threatening me??!!
 

all right I wasn't at Mayhem but from what I see on tape what you did was in the aftermath of what we did and if you like you can sample your power against us saturday ok simple as that we have been doing it all season.

Re: Are you threatening me??!!
 

<sacasm> Bring it on!! we're ready to KATN! w/ gracious professionalism...;)