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Originally Posted by Justin Shelley
I do agree that good defense could shut this strategy down, but can't that be said about almost any strategy? Defense could shut down FCS last year but yet FCS still prevailed..I think the same will be said about FCA(Full Court Assisting).  |
This is true for pretty much any strategy, but its a thing of how good the defense is, there is a difference in strategies that can be shut down by a rookie robot that had an ambitious design fail, or a team prepared and great at defense? So lets say FCA is on the blue alliance, they have 2 great shooters on team, they start in red and then shoot it over the truss, then go and play decent Defense but aren't very effective because they used the motors for the FCA (this may not be what you do, just a possibility), then their opponent score and so does their alliance, the shooter for the other team plays defense against them, or the midfield opponent, and stops them from feeding, then the midfield alliance bot gets the ball and truss shots over and it isn't caught because of the in-bounding opponent robot blocks, the ball goes bouncing, it is retrieved, your bot lines up to inbound, the cycle starts over and you shoot it over, by this time the opponents understand and block the catcher, another flying ball, while they are scrambling you have to attempt to play defense on shooter if ball is there because you can't go help because you aren't fast enough. And by time selections come around your opponents in finals know what you can do so they play easy defense on you (the shooter for opponents) but the problem is that more than likely in a finals match that shooter would be one of the top teams so they would be very versatile, so they could play quick defense, so what do you do, you grab the ball and bring it down to shoot , if you focus on a full court assister wouldn't you have to also refine it to be able to shoot closely and maybe not as good so you'd want to hand it off well? but you spent so much time on the FCA that it's not that great? this could go a million ways but this is just a way I thought of. There are so many other great ways for this ending up but this is a bad way that very well could? Please correct me if this is totally nonviable.