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Originally Posted by sciencenerd
Yes. From what I could see, the most effective robots were the ones that could either score well and consistently in the corner goals, or were so incredibly amazing/had such a great strategy of scoring in the center that they could negate any defense. This was best illustrated by the match between alliances 1 and 8. Although 1 had some great shooters, 360's defense was enough to totally shut them down. Alliance 8 could easily have won the regional, if it wasn't for 254's amazing strategy in that final round.
Sciencenerd's final analysis of Aim High: Shooters that can't shoot faster than 1 ball/second are next to useless. They will never be given an opportunity to sit still long enough to score significantly. Defense will be high, with many effective robots dumping at most one load of balls in the corner goal, then spending their time stopping the shooters from ever getting lined up. Robots that can't ramp had better be pretty durn amazing to make up for it. Team 254 is awsome.  |
Definitely. Team 254's quick shooting in the last round of the Finals just clinched their alliance's victory. It was amazing and very innovative that they thought up shooting from the platform- A tough spot for some robots to even get up to to play defense; my team's robot could ram but had difficulty getting up there to shove 254's off. Getting up the ramp also had its high probability of robot tipping over, which did plague a lot of the matches.
I think the alliance that my team was in performed great and we had great fun going up against the 254-753-1887 alliance- We were the 44th out of 46th ranked teams on Saturday morning! Wow. Congratulations to the PNW winners! As for us, now we have the finalist spirit to carry over to our next Regional in Davis.