[JesseK]

577 never played against us in quals. If they had, there's a very good chance they wouldn't have remained undefeated. Same with Smoke and Mirrors. I'm only saying such a bold statement because we had enough traction in 4 of our qual matches to score 100 points and then push away two other robots to defend and win (or almost win in 1 case) our matches with so-so alliance partners. We shut down some very high OPR bots, like 92 (Jr Bomb Squad), 154, 111, and 245. Was traction/defense an iWin button? No, but I think that one thing was something 2868 wouldn't have expected at all.

577, 2888, and 1885 came up with a great lockdown strategy for elims that worked well until one match where things went wrong on defense and another match where there was a wierd burning smell coming from the primary scorer. Essentially, the defensive robot drove forward in auto. The offensive bot got the close chute then came over underneath the defensive bot and got the other chute on our side. In teleop, the defensive bot then fought for the third chute and went to play defense on the bot that got the fourth chute.