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Originally Posted by Abhishek R
I'm pretty certain that the "pure offense" strategy will not work. After watching several of the regionals from the current season, most of the "defense" was just a robot moving side to side along the centerline and occasionally the tall blocker to attempt and deflect full-court shots. A more risky strategy, requiring a stellar drive team, is the man-to-man defense (or, since CD likes using hockey for this challenge, body-checking) as was displayed by 2789 TEXplosion at the Lone Star and Alamo Regionals. By making the trip back-and-forth from the feeder station a nightmare for the pyramid shooters with a quick and powerful drivetrain, they were able to delay the number of cycles these pyramid shooters were able to make taking it down from 5+ cycles to even just 1 cycle. They also had a removable blocker for those pesky FCS'.
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Originally Posted by dodar
I doubt you see 2789 fall to the 16th pick. 2789 will either be a 1st pick for an alliance or a 2nd pick by a 5-8 alliance. If they make back around to 1-3, those alliances deserve to lose to 2789's defense.
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Thank you very much for the respect given to my drive team. It's very hard to earn respect as a defensive team when everyone wants points, points, points, and we don't have the people or the resources to pull off the amazing robots and mechanisms that other teams can, so we have to rely on understanding the game, and building a mini-tank that can take and dish out punishment. Being able to understand the rules and knowing that the dynamics of elimination matches are very different from quals matches has been key to our success this year. We know that we won't be in a picking slot during alliance selections, but we also know the drive trains, wheels, drive patterns, preferred feeder slots and preferred shooting spots for every team at our regionals...and that knowledge has been much more valuable to us this year than any scouting data we've ever recorded.
I guess now is as good a time to say it as any...
This will be our first trip to championship in our team's five year history, and before this week we had planned on going as starry-eyed noobs just there to enjoy the ride...but then our good friends and alliance partners for two finals runs this year, team 4063, hooked us up with their spare frisbee shooter. Needless to say, we plan on showing up to champs with our mad defense and at least a 12 point autonomous...
