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Re: Breakaway Elimination Strategy

defense: Like Rick said, we found that The defense robot should first clear all the balls from it's zone(needs a good kicker to get it into the scoring zone). Then, depending on the situation, either help control the balls at midfield, or stay at defense I'd the other alliances robot was superb at scoring.

The midfield robot needs to have a relatively accurate kicker to either score or get the ball into position to score. It also needs relatively good ball control so it can control the balls from the ball return or a way for balls to bounce off and into the scoring zone(we had a houselike structure that deflected balls sideways and we used that to our advantage. Good pushing power also helps when trying to get the ball from the other alliance

the forward needs to be extremely manueverable and have excellent ball control so it can score going up the ramp. Kicker and hangar are not needed.

Durin the last few seconds and if the situation allowed it, we liked to move all non hanging robots intothe scoring zone. This usually gave our alliance a couple of points if there were enough balls because it would essentially overload the defense of the other alliance.

But again, teams that will win need to adapt and change their strategy every match so they can find the ideal positions for that round. A stagnant strategy is what killed us in finals and looking back, we should have changed it