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Originally posted by CaseyG668
This year, though, seems to be a little different. Maybe it's just the game that's got me jaded; it doesn't seem to inspire as much goodwill between teams as the past two games have, and I don't really like that there's so little strategizing you can really do ahead of time - the rule of thumb for this game seems to be whoever can knock the most boxes from the ramp onto their side generally wins. Maybe it's all the stuff that happened during the six weeks, with the motor specs coming so terribly late, trying to create a whole new drive train, not to mention normal team dynamics. But my own little theory is that over the years, the fundamental ideals of FIRST, the teamwork and gracous professionalism, the learning, wonder and excitement of this opportunity, they've lessened to a degree where it's stopped being fun for some people.
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I disagree with the no strategy thing. If anything, this game has much more strategy than last year, although probably not as much as 2001. Our team strategizes with other teams for as much time as we can before a match(qualifying or elimination). We scout the robots of our opponents and we decided on a suitable strategy. We ended up top seed because of this. If you take a look at our robot you would probably ask "how the heck did that robot get top seed out of 73 teams!?". Basically, it was all through our versatility and the ease with which we were able to work with our partners IMO, although obviously luck was a part of it(watch the last match on galileo, we won by one point, and we would have dropped a LOT if we would have lost). But honestly, I only remember two matches where I walked away without really feeling that we had worked well with our partners.
In my opinion, most teams think strategy is optional this year, and the key to winning is their bot. IMO, that is waaaay wrong. It is optional in the way that it is not nearly as necessary as it was in 2001, but it is an essential part of the game this year, if you wanted to win.