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Re: Troy Athens Regional

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Originally Posted by IKE (Post 944239)

For those of you just planning on blocking, please review the eliminations of Troy. You need a smarter strategy than "just blocking".

I can not agree with you more.

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Originally Posted by Chris is me (Post 944249)

Locking 469 out of a top seed is still a good idea, as it forces them to join the number one alliance. Ideally, this alliance includes you or an unideal partner, such as 51 or 2337.

There are plenty of ways that 2337 and 469 could be an ideal partner ... maybe 469 or 2337 has not shown these capabilities yet. Can 469 deflect balls from the near zone or can 2337 hang from the near zone? Can both 469 and 2337 move between zones?

The Big question is who will start in the middle!?

-Clinton-

Re: Troy Athens Regional

Remember that in the spirit of FIRST draging other teams into your seed boosting game strategy is not right. If you want to seed high then play the best, be the best and make a ligitiment win. You have a great bot and drive team so show it off every match. Food for thought, dont just focus on your number at the expense of everybody else.

Re: Troy Athens Regional

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Originally Posted by BJC (Post 943882)

That was 2137. It was a acceptable strategy and within the rules. It was not really a gracious profecional stratigy. However, when your in elims you do what you have to to win. The other team all happened to have less stable robots and 2137 took advantage of this. I can't begrudge them this. If you were in 2137s position would you have done this?

Keeping with the theme of first, I would not have used this a STRATEGY. I wouldn't have said before the match "Hey, Lets tip every robot out there and see what happens! We might get a yellow card, but hey, we just need to win one more match!" No. However, I have a friend on 2137 and he said that they built their drivetrain to be EXTREMELY powerful. I mean, you saw how easily the robots tipped. In a few cases, the bots WEREN'T unstable, and they got flipped like a pancake. When they play defense, they took full advantage of the raw power of their drivetrain, pushed a robot sideways in open field, and due to the traction with the floor, they flipped. Now, all three is a little suspicious, but still it was just a well played match. This happened in the Detroit Regional finals when the feds were hit by HOT. HOT hit them sideways, open field, perfectly legal, and the wheel traction caused them to flip on their side.

Note, if your getting hit from the side, maybe your drive team should back out of the situation or get hit against the wall to induce pinning (only 5 seconds) and then they must back off.