Quote:
Originally Posted by Glacier
I am speaking from limited but enlightening experience about cheese caking when I say that a limit to the weight or size dimensions of the cheese would be a thoughtful idea. This year I have witnessed and read about two similar incidents concerning an alliance's ability to make it to the playoffs in a regional/district/division and actually win the whole shabang. 2383 (The Ninjineers) came up with a "Noodle Net" that they put on team 5469 (Flare). The idea was creative and the purpose was to block or prevent "litter" from getting tangled in the drive trains of that alliance as well as to reduce the points scored for the litter. During the Bayou semifinals the alliance consisting of 2383, 179, and 5469 the net's tethering rope became tangled up in 2383's drive train, preventing them from scoring their maximum amount of points. Note: 5469 did not move the entire playoffs! So it became a 2vs3, and the cheese cake was effective in some ways but led to that alliance's demise.
|
I would like to correct you on some points you made about our playoff strategy since it may have been misunderstood. 5469 was cheescaked to be a can grabber in playoffs and was extremely successful at doing so towards the end of our playoff run. We brought out the noodle blocker in Semis and only used it in Semis 2 & 3 after seeing the ineffectiveness of it, we removed it for semis 5.
We would never pick a team to be an immobile dud on the field. Telling a team to not move is not only extremely rude and kinda "bully-ish", but also not intelligent for strategy. We picked 5469 since they were light weight which is what we needed for the noodle blocker, and also showed some experience in the landfill. Lastly, we never got caught in the tether of the noodle blocker as we never ventured on that side of the field, we got caught in the tether of our ramp in semis 3 and then after replacing the rope with an identical rope, we got caught again in semis 5. Since then we have learned a lot and created a much more resilient tether and only had to replace it once at champs after a minor entanglement that we had quickly escaped.
Sorry if my message sounds harsh, I just don't want misunderstandings