[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Mike Schreiber

As a team that played against 2771, I'm curious how you feel they do against defense? With the gravity feed it seems it would be easy to bump them as it's dropping and throw off the aim or even just sit in front of them with a reasonably tall robot and block since they shoot low.

They ran as quick as 11 second cycle times when being fed a ball perfectly by their human player, but I imagine ball defense can easily prevent this. They managed to put up 8 high goals - has anyone else in MI done this?

My team never got the opportunity to play against 2771 at East Kentwood, although we did get to play with them as part of one extremely stacked qualification alliance (Q64). Our side combined for 18 high goals in that one, against no defense to speak of -- result 160-69. Those three teams (3620, 3357, 2771) finished 1-2-3 in qualifying OPR.

I did observe that 2771's gravity fed shot can be disrupted by well-timed love taps. However, only a few defenders played that smart against them. As you saw, they shoot a lot of high goals when fed by fast cycling partners against light defense. Eight is the most I saw them put in during a single match. My own team did that also (Q56 if I recall correctly). I think a few others have made eight, but not in Michigan that I can recall seeing. Did your team or 33 get that high this past weekend?

I think we will see an alliance combine for 20 high goals before Einstein. I hope to see that at MSC.