Quote:
Originally Posted by AGPapa
I wasn't around on CD back then, so can somebody inform me of how often on CD was the overwhelming importance of minibots discussed in 2011? I tried doing some searches and couldn't find much discussion until after champs.
Similarly, how often was the importance of lap bots in 2008 or ball-stealers in 2012 talked about?
Can people point me to threads that talk about these issues before champs in each of those years?
This canburglar stuff has been beaten to death on CD, I seriously doubt that any division will leave a good canburglar to the end of the draft. And even looking at the teams that you mentioned, the more recent ones (610 and 16) were not the last picks of the draft, instead they were selected by the lower seeded alliances. I expect something similar to happen this year, with a lower seeded alliance of alright robots and great canburglars winning a few of the divisions.
|
I think people on Chief Delphi (at least sometimes) forget there are people in robotics who don't read Chief Delphi, Looking Forward, GameSense, Top 25, etc. I remember their being a large amount of discussion on CD last year about people doing mobility autos, yet at the earlier events, some teams didn't even plan on moving during auto. Just because the people who write on the above media have determined that the optimal strategy involves can-burglars, doesn't mean that every alliance captain at champs will know this. Some teams make suboptimal to really bad picks during alliance selections (the only time I ever was field rep, I made a bad pick*).
And if a really good canburglar does fall to the last pick of the draft, I think stranger stuff has happened at champs.
*Mistakes are made