Thread: Teams breaking the game
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Re: Teams breaking the game
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Originally Posted by dtengineering View Post
Last year's VEX game had one robot that could perform a perfect chokehold. 2W, from Gladstone Secondary here in Vancouver, could expand and form a wall blocking off just over half the goals. Assuming they had a partner who could score 100% of the points that were exclusively available to their alliance following the "block", 2W was mathematically guaranteed a win.
In my nine years of youth robotics I've never seen a robot break a game like 2W did Gateway. I know most of you are FIRSTies and don't pay much attention to VRC, but go watch that video that Jason linked to. It's not a dramatic robot, but when combined with a good scoring partner, it was amazing.
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