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Unread 01-03-2007, 23:01
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Re: [YMTC]: Scoring on rack by human player

I was planning on being the human player for 1495, but I realized it would be much better if we let the taller kids on the team do it. I'm sure one of them could wing it that far, we'll give it a test tomorrow. The tough part is vaulting it over the wall and then getting it to land on the rack.

Like others said, there's little purpose to this strategy. The human player tubes are much more important than the tubes across the field in my opinion, so why waste them trying to hurl them onto the rack? Unless you can do it with blazing accuracy, the risk of throwing it onto/into the rack or out of the arena AND the fact that you can negate your tubes by accident seems like enough reason to not even try this. Plus there's a GOOD chance (it happened a lot today) that you'll stick one to the flag post / top of a team bot.

Only times I see this useful are in these desperate situations:

1. All 3 robots are broken, or the offensive bots are.

2. When stacking your allies up, an enemy bot is somehow able to create a quick row and the only way to stop it is to desperately throw a stopper onto the rack.

3. Like the last guy said, in the first 15 seconds or so. If you fall short, just pick it up with the bot and yay! Just make sure your throwers are really accurate and that they don't sail out.

Ridiculous situations indeed!
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Last edited by MikeSty : 01-03-2007 at 23:03. Reason: I'm adding a reason :)
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