[ks_mumupsi]

I read through this whole post and theres quiet a few differences between the different regionals from week 1. There is one thing I did not notice in the entire post though.

There are very few autonomous with the Y-code, quiet a few straight line autonomous modes.

I will summarize NJ briefly here.... There were about 7-8 consistent minibots, there were about 2 or 3 really fast minibots. I think at NJ a lot of teams did loose the focus on the minibot and only focused on the main bot.

We had a working minibot, but it was not fast and nor was our deployment system designed till 3 days before NJ regional. The final minibot and deployment was designed within the week prior to the regional. The design for the minibot came from ideas and videos posted here on Chiefdelphi (credit goes to team 118*)

At NJ, if you had an effective minibot, it was game over, your alliance was probably going to win most qualification matches. (save some odd penalties)

Other than that, one of the biggest things I noticed with flooding the field with tubes, this is fine for qualification matches, however in eliminations the name of the game is to starve your opponents of tubes, especially if your opponents have a good tube scoring mechanism..

By around week 3 or so, most teams will have a minibot, by around week 4-5 most teams will have a consistent deployment and minibot. At this point I think the tube scoring will become extremely important.

Also if you could have an alliance with 2 scorers and one (defensive/scorer), along with 2 minibots, that was an effective strategy for us.

I am looking forward to seeing how this season progresses in terms of strategy.