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Re: Ball Corral blocking

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Originally Posted by Paradox1350
Right, but that prevents your alliance from scoring points too, since you are tied up blocking and can do nothing except sit there. It could work in the final (elimination) matches, but if I were the other alliance, I would head to the center platform, take up as much space as possible, and grab the bar. At which point you are now 100 points behind with no time to make it up by gathering and scoring 20 balls (or 10 and a multiplyer.)

So whereas you CAN do it, I, personally, would't make that my main strategy.
I think thats a overly simplistic analysis. First of all, not all robots can get to the bar. Second, we would not be at such a great loss as you say. Its not as though the robots would sit and defend against no one for 30 seconds while the other teams robots slowly make their way to the top. As soon as they stop pushing balls, then the defending alliance can do something else.

But in reality, i agree this would be a bad idea because one relatively mobile robot and a properly placed mobile goal could be nearly as effective at blocking small balls while their is still one robot working on the team thats doing the blocking.
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