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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
If you're very smart you can put together a really good bottom end alliance. #7 from Lone Star (231, 12, 1429), I still can't believe those three got together after 231 declined 57, all of them were first round picks.
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I do believe you're missing a digit there.
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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
At some regionals the pyramid discs were in play often (Orlando) and in others only one was scored the whole event (by a 148 human player at LSR).
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Our human player also scored a pyramid goal, but your point still stands.
Once again, autonomous is key. It wins matches, and costs others (us in semi-finals). It is also important that the entire alliance has some sort of autonomous shooting. Our eliminations alliance had all three robots shooting three frisbees into the three-point goal, and we had the capacity to score nearly many points in the first 15 seconds as the first seed alliance, even with 118's 7-frisbee autonomous.
Driver practice is important, as is strategically shutting down the lanes opposing robots use to feed. Picking up frisbees off the ground will only get more important from here on out, as it will save many trips across the field.
Climbing to the third level is important, but can easily be bested if it takes over 30 seconds, and there is a good shooter on the other team. 10-point climb is quick, and much less dangerous (ask 148).
Interestingly, we never went up against a full-court shooter, so we never felt the need to have a tall-defensive bot that sacrificed the ability to go through pyramids. That being said, 3847 is extremely impressive because it retains the best of both worlds. I still credit our loss in semis to their defense.