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Re: Value of Defense

Posted by Jeff Burch, Engineer on team #45, TechnoKats, from Kokomo High School and Delphi Delco Electronics Systems.

Posted on 4/1/99 9:37 AM MST


In Reply to: Value of Defense posted by Daniel on 3/31/99 3:47 PM MST:



Daniel,

You make a very good point. Our team (#45, Delphi Kokomo High School) specializes in puck control and defense. If one team on the alliance can push the puck to the opponents side for the doubler, get on the puck for the tripler, and prevent either of the opponents robots from getting on the puck, the most your opponent can score is 30 points. With the 6x, your team only needs 5 points from floppies to win (by tie-breaker).

This isn't just theoretically possible. In our alliances quarter final matches in Ypsilanti we held our opponent to 20 and 27 points in successive wins. In the semi-finals, our alliance held the Beatty/ ITW Drawform/ DaimlerChrysler-OSM Tech alliance to a maximum of 75 points (and that was a match we won). This is equal to that alliances lowest winning score from any other elimination match.

So I'm doing a little marketing for our team here, but the point is good defense can beat even the highest scoring teams. The points you can get from floppies alone are a drop in the bucket compared to what you can get with good puck control!

Jeff Burch


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