[NotInControl]

Originally Posted by engunneer

I think it is worth discussing the conundrum the opponent's to this alliance had for defense picking. After the 70 pt auto, the next match had all of the b and d choices stacked up against the low bar in slots 2 and 3.this did a great job of disrupting the auto by having the robots all crowded together, but also opened up a Lane for 195's excellent human player.

And because of how audience selection goes, their opponents in the semifinals didn't have this option of crowding the auto.

I think in the end, the only defense against this combination would be to crowd them together in autonomous, but then also dedicate a robot to blocking the bowler.

This! Once we pulled it off in our first quarterfinal match, we were all out of our seat. But the first thing we said was that won't ever happen again.

If teams pay attention to their scouting data, they can make 70-pt autos seldom to appear again at champs by selecting defenses as was done in later matches at NE to cluster all alliance teams towards the low bar.

After that 70-pt auto match, in later matches you can see 125, and 2168, tweaking their auto routines in order to prevent being effected by the defense cluster as much and giving 195 as much a change to pull of the 2-ball as possible. But after the 70-pt auto, in all of the matches we played after quarter finals. I think we had many 50-pt autos and a 40-pt auto.

Not saying its impossible, but smart alliances will do everything from preventing an opponent alliance with even the chance of doing a 70-pt auto.


On another note - 1519, 230, and 176 proved that even with a 50-pt auto, you can set the world high score.