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Re: Week 3 Impressions of Rack n' Roll
As I saw in the UTC Regional and a little bit in the NYC Regional, ramping did mean a lot, especially in the end. If an alliance just played pure defensive and ramped both robots at the end while the other tried to score within the last few seconds [without being blocked] nor ramped, the team that ramped won. If it was even a close match, getting one robot for 15 bonus points helped lead to a win. Ramping just seems to become more and more important as the weeks are going on; best alliance [i think] will have 2 great scoring robots and a ramp robot that can play defensive and the 2 scorers can get on the ramo robot [just my 2 cents]
I also noticed that the rack didn't seem to be moved [many times] prior to starting the match. Now this could have been due to the fact not many teams were using autonomous mode, but who knows. And when autonomous was being used [by the few robots] they did pretty well. Things just seem to be getting much better and get higher scores as the weeks are going on =)
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