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Originally Posted by Joe Johnson
Will someone who saw it first hand give a thumbnail sketch of how the Elimination Rounds went in Sacramento?
On the surface, the story is simple: Cheesy Poofs win ANOTHER regional.
But, I suppose that it was more complicated than that.
Anybody willing to fill us in?
Joe J.
P.S. By the way, how many regionals have Cheesy Poofs won now 8, 9, more? Do tell...
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It is actually quite simple really. The Poofs have a bot that can get the 2 10pts balls in less than 8 seconds in autonomous mode, will not get stuck on small balls at all when they herd at least 8 of them to the human player each match, grab the big ball with 1 minute remaining in the match and cap it within 15 seconds, and drive by the side of the bar and hang in 20 more seconds. Imagine their bot from 2001 and you will have a good idea how speedy they accomplish each task.
Their alliance partners were bots that consistantly hang in each match giving them 50 points, plus 50 more pts when they hang their robot, and 5-11 balls with cap that give them 50-110 more points.
Their opponents are usually busy moving small balls and big balls when the poof's partners hang, and by the time the 254 bot finish capping the goal, you either try to block them from hanging (and not get the 50 pts yourself), or you both hang and get out-scored by their capped goal and 2 robot hanging.
The only times when the Poofs didn't hang in a match was when their cable snapped after getting pushed really hard while winching up, but I am sure they came up with a way to fix that problem by now.
Oh, by the way, Jay has been driving for the Poofs since their winning streaks at 2001. Try training your driver with 3 years of competition experience, and you may have a chance to beat them.
Either that or come up with a robot that can decap the big ball and block them from hanging from the steps. ;-) It is too bad the robot call "tiny tank" at the Sacramento regional didn't have a big ball poker, I thought they had a chance in stopping the Poofs when they kept driving on the Poof's bot from the first step with their wedge shape bot.
I think we need to see some serious defensive strategy in SVR or there is no stopping 254.