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Originally Posted by David Dawson
469 can be stopped with a simple strategy. Just "hit them" the ball only sits 3" inside of the the ramp. So when we played them in the Cass tech finals 305 gave them a slight tap to knock the balls off their ramp and it worked just about every single time....Only problem was we couldn't stop 217 from scoring, and lets face it those guys can win a match 3 vs 1.
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I haven't seen it in person, but it seems from this post that 469 followed the rule exactly. It does put a slight limitation on their amazing capabilities (9 inch ball on 3 inch deep ramp is not as good as large funnel into 10 inch tubes)
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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli
Read the team update that specifically allowed their design. It was one of the last updates.
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Team Update 2 clarified the necessary rules to make their design legal. Oddly enough, the update was released a day after this type of design started to be
discussed on Chief Delphi.
As a proponent of this design concept, I am happy to see it is effective and feasible within the other design parameters for this game. Props to 469 for building it and to the GDC for not making it illegal with a later Update (widely considered a possibility by many people I talked to).