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Re: Bunting to the playoffs...
Posted by Greg Mills.
Engineer on team #16, Baxter Bomb Squad, from Mountain Home and Baxter Healthcare.
Posted on 3/15/2000 9:22 AM MST
In Reply to: Bunting to the playoffs... posted by Joe Johnson on 3/15/2000 7:49 AM MST:
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Joe is right in that it has always been two different games. One BIG difference with alliances & the draft is that a machine can get into the finals without scoring a point. Before you had to have a machine to score or you didn't advance. It seemed really strange that we made to the #6 seed by scoring points and then the game plan in the finals dictated that we do something that we never planned on - play defense or protect our partners back so that they could score. It turned out to be great strategy because Heat Wave can score points and we were able to keep the other guys from scoring.
A couple of thoughts - I'm not sure how I feel about a #1 seed being allowed to pick another seeded team (although it worked great for us here).
It is very possible and even likely that a machine that has only a few capibilities will determine the outcome of the finals just by being a spoiler. I am not sure that I like a machine stopping another that is a superior machine is terms of abilities because it can just push him in a corner. It is far too easy to just get in the way and prevent a wonderful robot from showing his stuff because two minutes doesn't allow enough time to get around.
After watching this year - far more teams will elect to develop a specialty machine and plan on being picked as the perfect partner - it is a very viable plan.
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