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Re: 2006 Finger Lakes Regional
The fact that 191, 250 and 211 were able to play pretty effective defense in the finals goes to show the importance of having two or more shooting threats on an alliance, particularly playing against such strong teams.
In our (and I use the term "our" very loosely, since all we did was strategy for teams 1591, 145 and 1585) semifinal match against the #1 alliance, we were never going to win without the shooting from our one 3 pt robot (1591). With this in mind, a two robot position defense in front of our own ramp wasn't feasible, since 229 would key on 1591 and stop them. We had to, then, send one robot (in game one it was 1585 and in game two it was 145) to stick to 229 in an effort to both shut down their offense and create space for 1591. This proved an impossible task.
Of course, game two was over about ten seconds in. I'm curious as to whether the time out was for programming. Perhaps someone from the winning teams can comment on this, if it isn't a secret. We saw computers out, so we assumed that the auto modes were being changed so that either 1126 would shoot right from start, or 229 would set a pick (which is what ended up happening). We figured that we couldn't beat a pick, so we had to try to stop the former.
In the case of 191, 250, and 211, all of them could shoot, so a positional defense becomes more viable, due to the fact that a defender could peel off and go shoot. This was, of course, helped by excellent driving (great job). I would have been interested to see what would have happened if 211 was assigned mostly to defense instead of 191, 191 having been the best shooter on the alliance up to that point, and 211 being a strong, solid robot.
I guess the point is: like everyone else, I was impressed by the defense in the finals.
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