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Re: First seed alliance captain: Low Bar or not?

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Originally Posted by jSchnitz View Post
As did most alliances at GKC, but even a 4'6" vision-blocking blocker wasn't bad if a team had practiced against one. If a blocker were to be a problem, I see no reason that a 15 inch robot couldn't find some a method to, say, see over that blocker. It'd be awfully hard to stop a bot that could always see over and shoot over a defender from the safety of the outer works.
Agreed. Especially if the outerworks shooter is not using camera tracking to line up, a blocker simply decreases line up accuracy and not by very much to an unblockable robot. 498 tried blocking us at AZ North but to no success and took it off in the second finals match.
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