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Originally Posted by Cory
Maybe suck was a poor choice of words. The robots didn't necessarily suck, but the strategy sucked.
Attempting to stop the balls from rolling into the goals after 469 deflects them is never going to work. You have to take balls out of their loop. If you're the defensive bot in their zone you HAVE to clear balls out to midfield or your own scoring zone. If you just run back and forth trying to keep the balls from rolling into the goals you're constantly going to be playing 1v2 and trying to keep 2 opponents from scoring, or you'll be totally neutralized by one bot while the other scores at will.
If they have 8 or 12 balls and they're cycling them every 4-8 seconds, you're done.
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Absolutely. Unfortunately once they got even a few balls into the loop, chickens started playing D on the opposing robot (who should have been the robot playing D) and there was no way to stop the loop. Remember you can only put one defensive robot in that zone - that's the rub.
The only effective way to stop is to not let them start it.