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Re: Minefield Strategy?
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Originally Posted by cnield
How effective would it be to have a robot place tetras (either randomly or strategically) on the field to block the opposing robots. This would probably involve quite a bit of driving between the opponents side and a loading station. The tetras themselves don't present much of an obstacle by themselves, but three/four of them in close proximity to a goal could have the potential to force the opposing teams to push/drive around the extraneous tetras.
Any thoughts?
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This was sorta discussed here:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=32933
But that thread mostly deals with using tetras to block a loading zone. I'm pretty sure this was discussed elsewhere too, and it seemed like the consensus was that it may not be an effective use of time unless you can really get a lot out there to jam up the works. I'm thinking many, if not most, robots will be able to push them outta the way, or just pick them up and run away.
But who knows, we'll have to see.
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