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Re: Curie 2010!

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Originally Posted by Karthik View Post
Still a little tired and overwhelmed from the whole weekend, but I wanted to address the comments on Match 100 in this thread....
1114 absolutely made the right decision in match 100. We were only a few SPs behind them at that time and couldn't risk losing a close, high scoring match and falling into 2nd place. Looking back at the match now, we should have played it differently. We should have assumed that 1114 was going to play 6v0, skipped our autonomous, and immediately scored the 3 balls into their goals, then start scoring for us. That would have given us 6 more SPs than 1114.

There were a lot of strategic moves on Curie by teams that understand the ranking system. During our last match on Saturday against 40, they realized half way through the match, once we started scoring for them, that it was going to be a blow-out and proceeded to play defense on us, preventing us from scoring in their goals.

Both 1114 & 40 played the correct strategy, but I find it odd that most teams don't realize it. Far too often I've seen a team down at least 5 points at the end of the match go for the hang. The team cheers, but really, their opponents should be cheering louder since they just got a 4 point gift and the hanging team got nothing.

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