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Unread 18-03-2013, 14:32
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Re: Climbing and dumping not winning?

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Originally Posted by Koko Ed View Post
What shocks me is no one played D on them. They just let them go get their colored Frisbees and go to the pyramid and do their climb and no one bothered to even try to get in their way.
Swampdude already touched on it a bit, but anyway: We played against 125 and 4451 in our final qualifying match. One of our partners (4562) had no frisbee manipulation capabilities and was built solely for defense. Our other partner could only score 1 point goals, and slowly. Both of these robots did their absolute best playing D against 125 and 4451 with us doing our best to score. 4562 played great D for nearly the entire match but eventually 4451 got back to their pyramid. End result: 91 to 61 loss. D against 4451 doesn't matter unless it is effective nearly the entire match. Once they hit the pyramid they have their points.

With this knowledge our finals alliance decided very quickly to ignore 4451 entirely. Playing D against a good shooting bot slows them down and lowers their scoring. Playing D against 4451 takes perfect D and removes one of your bots from scoring. You mess up once and they get their points. For a great example of this watch Pink during the finals. Spectacular D every match but we still got through once or twice to put up a few points. You let 4451 through once and you've effectively taken yourself out of the game and didn't hurt them at all.
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