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Originally Posted by Madison
Credit for that strategy belongs with 2468, however. They did the same against that alliance in the quarter-final and it was fairly effective. The missing piece, in their case, was that they didn't have a scoring machine as powerful as 118 to drive up their score while they played defense like we did.
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Thanks Madison for the kudos for our attempt to block the triple balance.
Our plan was to have 2969 go do the blocking of the bridge while we,2468 played defense on 148 and allowed 245 to stay at home and score. 2969 was having difficulty moving so we went to block the bridge. We stayed as long as I thought we could and still have time to bet on the bridge to balance with 245 but we ran out of time. Our original plan was to begin the balance at 45 seconds left. If we had gotten the balance, we would have won the match. you can see the match here.
I still believe it is a viable strategy to prevent the triple balance. We had even discussed blocking the barrier so that the opposing alliance had to use the coopertition bridge or go the long way around thus taking extra time to get there.
http://www.thebluealliance.com/match/2012stx_qf2m3