[EricH]

We do it right after kickoff. We play a game or two or more, using chalk for the field and humans as robots. Every time we do a match, we go over it in detail afterwards, and we make sure to try different things. (For example, some of the "robots" last year were multistackers--they did not come out well in our version.) We use current rules and game pieces if we can, or choose a substitute game piece.

We haven't done it for specific teams, but for strategies in general. If Team A uses Strategy X most of the time, but Strategy Y beats Strategy X and we play Strategy Y as our main strategy because we found that it works better than Strategy X in practice, Team A better have a backup plan!

If you do it right, you could just play the game. If you have a team member play as another team, you may be able to figure out how to beat them.