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Re: Secret Sauce: Shot to Human Player

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Originally Posted by marshall View Post
It's a hard strategy to counter. If you camp a robot in the corner before we get there (IE: 1024 in Palmetto) then we can drive to the other corner or just sit in front of you. If you devote two robots to camping both corners well then you don't have much offense left to play.

Ramming us continuously was half working at NC but we have a solution for that.

Your confused look is the same as ours though. What is even more perplexing to us is the lack of teams doing this same strategy at other regional events. We know that there are two or three others that can do it but aren't regularly.

Ideally, we could literally park in front of the opponent's goal and then shoot straight to the other 1 pt goal and have another robot put it in without any human players being present. It's hard to wedge us out of the corner once we are in it too.
In the ideal situation you stated it pans out if you are the only robots out there. As soon as the opposing alliance is introduced you then are left with 1 robot playing defense against 3 robots playing offense. That means they can do a fairly safe 3 assist scoring cycle. They will have one robot that has the ball and 2 escorting I have seen very few robots run an effective defense against a 2v1.
We don't need to peel you out of the corner if being in the corner is detrimental to your team. Every opposing robot that is sitting in a corner is one less robot we need to worry about disrupting a cycle.