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Well since we're letting people know our team tactics, I might as well finish where you left off .

We basically choosed to ignore the goal-handling aspect of the game in the sense of latching on and holding the goal. Now, yes, this does have it's drawbacks, but it also allows us to concentrate on controlling other robots - which is the important part. The team 810 robot is a low guy designed for pushing other robots where we want them to go and controlling other bots. We can switch between wheels and treads on the fly. We spend most of the match on wheels trying to interfere with other robots (like getting in their path so that they can't get out of their homezone, ala team GRR ) Then, when need requires it, we jump up onto treads and push doods around. Thats baiscally what happened that one round I linked you guys to: we were controlling other robots, then during the last few seconds, we went into tread mode and pushed that other poor guy from their scoring position into our scoring position - while he was latched onto the goal. We switched back onto wheels and zipped it out of there back into our homezone, winning the round for us.

This of course is the plan, and as we all know, it doesn't always go according to plan. Contrary to what Steve said before, brute force doesn't always triumph (don't mind him, he's only our team ego ). That round let us go onto the semi-finals, where we lost. As it turns out, we lost mainly because we were hitting TRIBE at the wrong angle. We were trying to move them perpendicular to their drive train, and if they have two goals that just doesn't work no matter HOW much power you have. But thats a driver problem that we have to work on. Don't worry, TRIBE, next time we'll push you from the front so that you will be pushed into our scoring zone

Anyways, thats how our robot works, for all you scouts out there. All that we have to do now is look over the videos and see where our drivers need improving, and we're all set for Nationals.

Now that I've told you how team 810 works, for the scouts, how does everyone else's bot work?
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