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Originally Posted by Collin Fultz
We did not know the plans of the other alliance before the match, but they became obvious in the stands pretty quickly. Surprisingly, though, the red robots in the middle zone continued to play defense on our MZ advancer through the match. Otherwise, I think we could have scored 20.
I thought the event was great and will have more thoughs when I'm not typing on a phone on the bus. Congrats to the winning alliance and a huge thanks to all of our partners.
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Yeah, it was such an out of the box idea (for the KC regional) that our alliance decided not to bring up the strategy just in case it met opposition. The students decided that it was best to go in and hit it hard just in case your alliance decided to fight it (for whatever reason). While the plan was to try and get 30 points so that the highest ranked team on your alliance got 1st and our team and one alliance partner would get 2nd and 3rd in seeding, it at least got our two alliance teams in 7th and 8th. Considering before the match 935 was ranked 11th, the results speak for themselves.
Personally I don't necessarily like that the rules can be exploited like that, but without the ruling concerning points for the losing team, a bad alliance could completely wreck a good team's chances. It's definitely a catch 22 condition.
Regardless, nice work guys! All of you! I was very pleased with this regional.
