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Originally Posted by Cory
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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Our robot was designed from the beginning the have the same function as 469. We've been keeping our mouth shut in the "Ultimate Game Breaker Bot" until the cat was out of the bag on this strategy. But anyway, we've put a lot of thought into the strategy and the "throughput cycle" as we call it.
There are a number of issue with defending it. I'm still going to keep my mouth shut on most of them. However, I just want to point out one thing: you don't need 8-12 balls in the cycle. Not even close. Depending on how fast your human player is and how well you box out, all you need is 3-5 balls in the cycle- any more than that won't increase your score.