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Re: Announcing BattleCry@WPI 8!

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Originally Posted by Ogre View Post
My gut reaction to this change isn't good. I think it's going to change the game dynamics drastically. It places much more emphasis on defense and lifting. It cuts down on rack potential dramatically.
Teams are not going to try and score near their home zone anymore, instead, they'll try for the outer edges of the rack. If two allied teams are successful in placing keepers, then all they have to do is play defense the rest of the match. Large rows aren't going to build up because, well, you own two columns. As long as I keep you from getting any lifting points, or really doing anything effectively for that matter, I'll be in pretty good shape to win.
I'm going to have to go ahead and disagree with you there. The change was put into place in order to make autonomous more important in the game (which I think we all can agree, it was not). Your strategy as far as getting two in autonomous is indeed interesting, but frankly, I don't see that happening. While I did not watch every match of this year's FRC season, nor did I do any statistical analysis on the game this year, I can say with much confidence that getting two keepers on in autonomous is a difficult task that was not completed very often at nationals, nor at the regional level this season. One would certainly say that doing this is hard to do. Should an alliance not be rewarded for this team work? I would also say that getting two keepers on adjacent rows is not an easy task to accomplish (think of the space issues).

I also don't see how this change will make lifting more prominent. Many times this season, I have seen alliances score literally nothing on the rack and still win the match through bonus points (my own team included). However, because the other alliance couldn't score more than 60 points on the rack, they lost. If an alliance with a good tube scorer with an autonomous can score on the rack, they are that much closer to beating a ramp robot with two "base-bots" on their team.

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The new autonomous rule created for BattleCry@WPI was made so they would not need to alter the scoring software, while still allowing for a bonus for autonomous.
On that note (the scoring software), I might as well ask here: Will Battlecry be using the FIRST "Week 2" algorithm designed for more variety than the Week 1 Algorithm, or will something different be used to account for attendance on Friday?
The plan is to use the system that BattleCry has used since it's inception, and not the "more different" algorithm that FIRST has used through this competition season. Because of that, one can expect a more traditional schedule than this year (i.e. no high, middle, low number team distribution).
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