[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by Andrew Schreiber

Defense... See attached. That's the result of that defense on a cable that is buried deep inside our robot. Imagine that, breaking your opponents via burying a claw deep inside their bot is a winning strategy

This happened at battlecry? I must have missed it. Ouch. How does that even happen? We had a match in quals early on where our air dump valve was hit during a match, dumping all air, and rendering our shooter and intake useless. This year is a tough year from a defense perspective.


I think one of the best strategies I've seen all year is using the human player to quickly pass the ball between alliance robots. At Champs, certain teams would intake the ball and then quickly spit it back out to the human player so they could then inboud it to another robot and pick up a quicker assist.

I don't recall the particular alliance at the moment, but at champs one alliance was inbounding, then quickly shooting cross field to their other human player to get around defense and using the other human player to get the ball into their alliance partner's robot to pick up the assist and score.

It was extrmely effective and enjoyable to watch.

Edit: Chinmay beat me to it. That "pass back" strategy was awesome. And Just for the record, I agree with them whole heartedly about choosing your words wisely.

Originally Posted by Chinmay

... I think you're going a bit far by implying that the strategy that the other alliance used was to break your alliances robots. Things break when defense is played... Fouls are called...

I do not believe any damage was due to malice intent. Esp at BattleCry. BattleCry is one of the friendliest events I have the privelege to attend with some of the most gracious and world-class teams around. I don't even remember what match robot or alliance our air valve was hit in, because it wasn't important, it was no ones fault. We've all been doing this for many year. These things happen. It is not intentional, and I would never even hint that it was.