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Originally Posted by PayneTrain
Shawn, you might have been simulating competition-quality defense (which no team ever does enough of... our brutish 2013 robot is going to be getting some extra miles these next few weeks from yours truly, I assure you) but can you say you were simulating any and all likely competition-quality courtyard scenarios?
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We went through several scenarios that we worked out with other teams at our practice, including individual cycling and feeding cycles among other things.
The defensive robot mostly played zone denial upon entry of the attacker from neutral to courtyard, then tried to disrupt them from reaching their shooting position with a mixture of head-on pinning and t-boning. After the opponent makes their shot, the defensive robot then player denial again, disrupting the attacker from leaving the courtyard.
From standing behind the driver station on both sides (attacking and defending), I observed that the Middle Driver Station and Right Side Driver Station have absolutely no vision through the glass of the Secret Passage or the left-side goal when trying to play defense. Conversely from the Left Driver Station, the driver has little to no vision of the right-side goal and the spy area.
I think that strategy will make or break a team's offensive strategy this year, as without cameras, the defending robot is at a huge disadvantage, and if the defensive robot is known before the match begins, a strategy can be made to exploit it.