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Re: 2012-Greater Toronto Regional East

The robot that targeted the bridge seemed to have been assigned to play defense on 1114, and for most of the match they did it right--get in the way, knock them away from their shooting spot, that sort of thing.

Once 1114 went onto the coopertition bridge, however, they should have backed off. The only thing you can really do there is damage yourself on the bridge, or maybe deny both yourself and your opponent (and your partners) those coopertition points. Maybe if you get really lucky (or unlucky), you get both knocked off and/or damaged--but then you might get into strategies intended to X, and that's risky. Continuing contact like that is not smart.

The blacklist suggestion--well, I probably would, but it wouldn't work on this team. They made it to the top 8.
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2012: FRC4046 Schroedinger's Dragons

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