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Re: What won in 2006?

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Originally Posted by gblake View Post
I'll repeat; take a look how the Poofs made us of the autonomous time. I didn't talk to them about it; but I believe their successful strategy included purposefully losing the Autonomous period. That creates a good argument against saying that winning the autonomous bonus was important, and instead supports a counter-intuitive assertion that winning autonomous could be a problem instead of a benefit.

N>3 manually-assisted Offensive period shots that go in, instead of M>3 attempted shots during autonomous that go awry erases the autonomous bonus; and puts you in good shape for getting accurately reloaded by human players before the 3rd teleop scoring period.

Blake
This is a very good point, however its definitely in the minority.

Many many teams won entire regionals based purely on the fact they were able to drain 10/10 in automode every time out.

2006 was definitely the best year for the camera. I thought that 2010 had a good chance of duplicating that, but from the looks of it it wasn't nearly as important as 2006. Teams like 25, 111, 233, 217, 11 all took advantage of the camera to such a large degree that they were often incredibly difficult to stop. Other teams such as 254/968 utilized specific scoring strategies that often yielded incredible results.

I think everyone who was around for the infamous "A-bomb" strategy will testify to how awesome a game it was. For those who were unfamiliar with this, teams 25, 968 and 195 were aligned together in Newton. The teams had devised a strategy that greatly highlighted the individual team strengths. Team 195 was a "dumper bot" that year. They were a fridge-like robot that would scour the field collecting balls. Team 968 was one of the fastest rapid fire shooters in FIRST, and often utilized "ramp camping" to ensure as many balls as possible made it into the goal. Well after 968 had climbed the ramp and emptied their first clip into the goal, they would climb off of the ramp. They would meet up with team 195 around midfield, and 195 would dump their entire hopper into ground feeder of team 968, essentially refilling them in an instant. Team 968 would then climb back up the ramp and unload an entire hopper into the goal. The alliance ended up losing on Einstein, however it was not for lack of creativity.

To me this is still one of the coolest plays I've seen happen in FIRST. Being close with many of drivers on those teams made it very memorable for me. I think this speaks to the diversity of Aim High and how awesome a game it was.

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