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Originally Posted by roystur44

The third pick will be the most important. A defense robot that can push to protect the full court shooter and also have a 84 inch blocker.

We've been in finals at 3 regionals as a 2nd pick defensive robot and coached a rookie team through finals as a 2nd pick defensive robot at a fourth regional this year. This will be our first trip to champs, and we've messed with different kinds of blockers, but I can tell you the best way to block shots is to never let the full-court shooter get to the feed station in the first place

We were hoping to show up to champs as a solid defensive robot and hoping for the best, but we've been told repeatedly by people we respect that without an autonomous that's at least double-digits, we shouldn't expect to play past quals. Our good friends at 4063 were gracious enough to help us get a shooter going for St. Louis, so hopefully, we'll be able to show well at the end of the month with a 3 disc autonomous and our defensive play. We're really looking forward to finding out just how good our defense is on this level of play, as well as seeing how far smart defense can get us.