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Originally posted by GregT
This is what I thought last year. Then at nationals I found I was unhappy with matches that resulted in < 100 pts. Thats what it took to stay on top, not winning: winning BIG. The layout of elims this year promotes this even more. If you set out to crush the opposition and they get "lucky" once, your done.
Your explanation would work if everyone set out with that mindset, but not everyone wants to crush the other team and win with minimal QP's.
Of course these are just my opinions and I'll probably be proven wrong, but until then I'm going to stick to them!
Greg
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I hope that you are right, honestly. It'd be interesting to watch.
Unfortunately, I don't think there's as great a variety of robots and strategies as there needs to be to keep the game all too exciting. Rather than set out at the beginning thinking, "How can we beat teams that perch themselves atop the ramp?" it seems as if most teams thought, "We'll just be the team that perches atop the ramp."
It means that, really, if you didn't build the best ramp dominating robot at your regional, or in the country, you'll eventually be beaten. There's little else you can do. At least it seems as if some teams considered that, adding stackers or other modules to their designs.
Last season, some team's ditched their ball collectors almost immediately upon experiencing the game (254 comes to mind). I wonder how many teams may ditch their stackers this season. I know that already, we are planning to do that to some extent. But, we aren't designed to be a viable king of the hill robot, so it required some creative thinking as to what else we could do. ...and that's what I was hoping we'd see more of.... clever strategies beyong stacking or knocking over the wall or defending the top of the ramp. Y'know, just cool, efficient ways of screwing over everyone who thought they'd take the easy way out
