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Originally Posted by BBnum3
Congrats to the winning alliance, especially 2108. It's amazing that a rookie team can win as an alliane captain at such a big regional.
I was not a fan of the red alliance's strategy. 623 would have been better off playing defense for at least a little while and then retreating to the alliance station to deploy their ramps. With some more defense the outcome might have been different.
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In answer to this (we got asked about this a couple times) in the begining of the tryouts we cam across a unexpected flaw in our design. We used a release system so that the front panel controlled all the side ones on our robot to save weight as aposed to pneumatics which we saw a bit. While this was a huge help on cutting weight. But we found, while testing our robot in defence, that if someone pushed our front panel forward they could force a release and dangerously so since the dampening pneumatics wouldn't deploy. We adopted a "just deploy" strategy rather then risk discualification or a unsafe situation. We also had a arm for innertubes that didn't get as much action as we wanted.
It probabely hurt is in a couple cases but it also made it very hard for other robots to prevent ramp deployment by filling our area with innertubes to block ramps. It was a strategy choice that was a two sided sword for us in the end and probabely cost us in the finals. But yeah we kind of wish we could have had more in game time though.
All in all we were happy with the year as I think this was without a doubt our best if only because how much the kids loved working with it and even now have plans to turn it into a skate park.