13-03-2011, 20:22
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no bag, vex only, final destination
AKA: Pinecone
 FRC #0228 (GUS Robotics); FRC #2170 (Titanium Tomahawks) Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Glastonbury, CT
Posts: 7,755
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Re: Week 2: Any new lessons learned?
Tube starvation and intelligent tube throws are very important in qualifications, and sometimes eliminations. If your alliance has the only minibot, you can win the match by holding all of your tubes back and just choking the field. If you have a scoring disadvantage and want to cause some disruption, tube starvation will get (floor loading) opponents tubes right out of their hands and give you a leg up that could just beat them.
Using the feeder lane is by no means impossible. 177 effectively took advantage of the lane with their very agile and competitive robot.
Don't push tubes right in front of the scoring pegs, especially if you don't have a long arm. You won't be able to score on the pegs without moving them.
Strafing, 3553-style defense is some of the best defense you can play.
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