[DougHogg]

Originally posted by Jeff Waegelin


We used a similar "play dead" strategy at Epcot this year. It was really funny, because we fooled the announcer, our opponents, and even a few team members. At the beginning of the match we didn't move any, and then looked at our robot in astonishment. The announcer even said that "201 is still dead in their home zone" or something to that effect. We waited until there was about a minute left in the match, then took off, grabbed a goal from an opponent, grabbed one from our partner, parked, tethered back home, and won the watch 39-38 and got 114 QP's.

You don't know how lucky you were in that match. Our team (980) was one of your opponents and we lowered our ball dumping basket a little too quickly, leaving one ball in our basket. But the real kicker is that we had enough air in our tanks to just raise the basket up again to dump that last ball. That would have tied the score 39 to 39 but we would have won the tie breaker since we had more balls. What can I say. We just got a little rattled and forgot that we could dump again. It was definitely an unintentional gift. We will remember that match until the dawn of time, and I am sure we will all laugh at ourselves about it each time someone brings it up.