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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
I don't have any other great method of getting the answers out of those involved in decisions around Einstein 2014, and I feel like if teams who played in the semifinals and specfically the finals match were willing to discuss their thoughts behind decisions made on the field in a public forum, it would be a great benefit to a lot of people. With the 2014 competition season over, I know I am left wit ha few questions.
To 254:
Why did you stick with the given autonomous strategy after the first match after seeing how close 1114 was getting to you guys?
What caused the misses in autonomous in F2? From my viewpoint I could have sworn 1114 made bumper on bumper contact with you, but I'm not sure.
I think I know the answer to this, but why not give a ball to every team in F3 since all robots were already in the white zone?
Why not accept a possible 15 point deduction on ignoring hot goal detection to avoid the 1114 menace?
Do you think you would you have made those shots in autonomous with or without the pick 469 attempted?
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I'd like to first say that 1114 having a goalie pole and hybrid auto mode was about as "shocking" to us a our having a low goal 3 ball (neither of us was at all shocked).
Sticking with the three ball auto was a calculated risk. We decided that the chance their actual pole would block the shots to be very low. The danger was all in the position of their claw. The claw came between our front ball and the low goal in F2, and was actually pinning our front intake down in F3 (intake came free in time to score the last ball).
We discussed not going hot before each match and decided that they would likely be able to legally put something (claw or robot) between us and the goal in time.
We also discussed running a two ball mode that lined up on the edge of the field and drove straight (shooting one ball on the run and one near the front of the low goal. This involved bringing 74 off the bench and having them run a 1 ball (these guys had an impressive 10/10 one ball auto in quals). I asked Adam (67) what he thought we should do. His advice was the "safer" choice, bring 74 in and everyone run from the side, still getting all the balls hot.
We thought about doing this, but the last minute change (bringing in a fresh team to Einstein) and giving our opponents the mental edge that'd forced us off of our bread and butter didn't seem like the right thing to do.
In the practice match on Einstein, we ran 2848's modified auto. It was programmed to run full speed into the goalie zone and deploy their brake plate. The idea being they could stop 1114, or slow them down, allowing us to gain position to fire the 3 balls into the hot goal.
It was just after sending Dan and my operator back to the field with this strategy that Adam turned to me and said "You guys are nuts. This is chaos. How do you know that they (2848) won't crash into you?! How do you know they won't both crash into you?!"
My response was that I trusted our (254) programming team, we'd run 2848's blocking auto on the field already. At this point my heart was about to pop and everyone near me (Jess B, Adam H., & Adam F) probably thought I was going to pass out.
In the end I don't know if we would have made the shots w/o 2848's block, I know we had made and missed once before without it, and that something had to happen to try and stop 1114 from gaining position on us in F3.