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Unread 05-01-2009, 14:07
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Re: Defensive Strategies

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Originally Posted by BigWhiteYeti View Post
What if you just backed yourself into a corner of the arena and used your robot to block your goal? That could be useful end-game to prevent being supercelled by the other alliance.
Depends on how good the human players were. 1073 won a playoff match in 2004 when the human player threw a playground ball into the goal from clear across the field at the last second.

But I agree, this is not a bad endgame strategy if you have no other defensive options (i.e. no lid, etc).

e: you do have to keep in mind that there is a red payload specialist on the side of the field and vice versa...there is no location for the robot to be that is more than 20 feet away from a human player...
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Last edited by Petey : 05-01-2009 at 14:11.