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Originally Posted by GearsOfFury
Jibri, congrats on your great performance at Midwest! #1 seed and semi-finalists, an awesome showing. You lost to a tough champion alliance.
I was a little surprised to see you guys select your bot to be the 'blocker' against 2512's full court shooter, since you had a strong shooting performance (7th highest OPR at the event). What was your guys' strategy on this? Was it because of your drivetrain's abilities? I felt that maybe 2010 would have been a better blocker choice...?
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The reason why we were the blockers was because we got inspected Thursday with the detachable blocker and it was already built. If you watch seeding match 2, that's when we first used it catching 2512 totally off guard. We were attempting to make a blocker for 2010 but we couldn't make a blocker that blocks from two directions in time.
The reason we needed a two-directional blocker like the one we had is because we found that defensive robots protecting a full court shooter tend to force a bot to turn sideways.
Not only that but we lost the quarterfinals in Milwaukee due to not efficiently blocking a full court shooter. Over spring break our driver and I, (our shooter) practiced some defensive strategies against full court shooters and a defensive bot. We had the most experience against them on our alliance.
I think us and 648 could of out scored 71 but we had to play defense to stop a score of like 200 or something.
Btw I think our TP could have been a little higher but we had a lot of really tough matches where we were the main scoring or the only scoring robot. There were a lot of close calls for us but we got the job done, probably because of the defensive capabilities of our alliances
