
18-10-2011, 14:49
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6th Gear Developer; Mentor
AKA: Blake Ross
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Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: May 2006
Rookie Year: 2006
Location: Virginia
Posts: 1,943
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Re: What won in 2006?
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Originally Posted by gblake
They once were easy to find.
Right now the The Blue Alliance has scores but no video.
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Blake
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Found some (plenty) here http://video.google.com/videoplay?do...6592046251675#
One example is match 57 at 18:30 in that video.
You can find the 2006 SVR match schedule (to help you navigate through the multi-hour video) here: http://dev.thebluealliance.net/tbatv/event/2006sj
Just to stop fawning over the Poofs for a minute, the Poofs usually field a very good team in VRC and FRC (and probably in most competitions they enter); but I certainly don't think they sit around sipping ambrosia on Mt Olympus. Instead in this thread, I think they are a good example of winning by doing something other than just scoring points as soon as the rules allow.
You don't win if you don't score more points than the other alliance; but most well-designed STEM robotics games include more dimensions than just rushing to score. In particular, the path from the opening bell of an FRC match to a win isn't always a straight one. 2006 Aim High was game in which it wasn't *always* smart to shoot balls as soon as possible. Sometimes waiting for the right moment made more sense.
It doesn't take Olympian gods to think through subjects like this. All a team (like the original poster's) needs to do is to take a few minutes to stop and assess the games from more than one angle before settling on a strategy. The OP's plan to practice doing this sort of thing is a pretty good one.
Blake
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Last edited by gblake : 18-10-2011 at 23:33.
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