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Originally Posted by who716
at our most recent offseason event, (battle cry) we were the 19th alliance ( 716,181,2468) going against the number 2 Alliance, of (125,195,1474) if you are familiar with the number two alliance robots' then you know that they are a regional winning alliance for sure.
During our discussion of strategy our alliance partner came up with doing a one assist cycle and stopping them on defense with the other two robots.
I was skeptical at first, as the 2 alliance is capable of putting up big point quickly, but we were down one and had to try something so I said "lets do it"
To my surprise it worked, 181 would in-bound/truss/ score in the top all by itself. while 2648 and 716 would play the defense roll. At the end of the match we won 95-90 with the foul points subtracted (there was a total of three technical foul 1 on our alliance two on opponents alliance) 
we came back with the same approach in quarter final 3-3 and took that match by 20 points with a Tec foul against us. They were brutal matches to say the least but it surprised me to see this strategy worked. |
In the Newton final, 971 tried that against our alliance in the first match and they found that they had to give up too much offense and we were still able to put up a cycle. They switched to a more standard strategy in the next match but still lost. The defense had to be truly impenetrable to work.
Of course the introduction of the goalie bots into the elims in the Worlds was the other big innovation. They hadn't been of consequence until then. Getting 254 to miss 2 auton shots in match 2 affected match 3 too.