[jblay]

I actually had a similar thought but I wasn't sure if it was appropriate to start such a thread.

In my opinion the problem with the Curie alliance was that they had 1114 put balls from the middle into the home zone and with 294 being in that zone they simply took those balls that 1114 put there and put them into their home zone for 67 and 177 to score and with no bot clearing that zone those balls were free to sit there and give Newton the ball control until they decided to score. In my opinion 1114's role on that alliance shouldn't have been putting in the ball from the middle and pushing them in but making sure all the balls stayed in their home zone for 469 to cycle with the help of 2041. It also didn't hurt the Curie alliance's scoring ability that 67 could hang after the buzzer.

This was the initial flaw I saw in the Curie alliance and the only reason that Archimedes didn't manage to capitalize on this was that the hangers on their alliance weren't the ones who played the two closer zones. Either 233 or 254 needed to stay in the back zone and that alliance didn't have the advantage of the double hang unless they freed up the far zone at the end of the match. 3357 was a great close zone scoring bot and did a great job throughout the competition but I don't think they were the right fit for that alliance. With all the talent on Archimedes I think that 233 and 254 should have picked up either a close zone robot that could hang or a robot that could solidly play the far zone.