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Originally Posted by Daniel_LaFleur
While I have no actual data to back things up, Gary's data does seem to suggest that the extra ring on the rack is very important.
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Actually I was arguing the opposite. That individual keeper wasn't the deciding factor, although it certainly can help. I saw one match at Detroit where the opponents were going to attempt to put on a spoiler, and the best place for it would have been in the keeper position. So the keeper made a small portion of the score (row of 3 plus a single, vs 2 rows of 4). I don't recall whether the spoiler actually was placed, though.
My point was that a team that had time to program keeper placement, and do it well, probably built a good robot that could score a lot of ringers in tele-mode.
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It would not surprise me to see keeper defense being played at the championships.
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903 had a good defense pattern that they ran at Detroit - but with the few attempts at keepers, it had no effect. I would also expect to see a lot of defensive bots run a keeper-intercept pattern.