The Niagara Triplets the best team(s) in 2006?

[Starke]

The Niagara Triplets seem to win every regional they are at and have a great design. So, what do you think? This thread is not meant to become an argument. Please just state what you think and why.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Starke340

The Niagara Triplets seem to win every regional they are at and have a great design. So, what do you think? This thread is not meant to become and argument. Please just state what you think and why.

Individually, are they the best teams?

Maybe.

They're so good together because hardly any regional champions have been able to put together an alliance that has two really good shooters.

Together, to date they're obviously the best.

Alone they're still pretty darned good, but would be much less dangerous without a second scoring threat to take some heat off of them.

[Guy Davidson]

Originally Posted by Cory

Individually, are they the best teams?

Maybe.

They're so good together because hardly any regional champions have been able to put together an alliance that has two really good shooters.

Together, to date they're obviously the best.

Alone they're still pretty darned good, but would be much less dangerous without a second scoring threat to take some heat off of them.

While I have not seen the triplets play, what you say here makes me wish our alliance at Vegas (25, 897 and us) would have gotten a chance to play them. Just becuase our alliance featured two excelent shooters, each loading differently (25 human, 987 roller) and our robot, that managed to play some strong defense during the tournament. I think it would've been an interesting match.

Sumadin

[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by Starke340

The Niagara Triplets seem to win every regional they are at and have a great design. So, what do you think? This thread is not meant to become and argument. Please just state what you think and why.

They are among the best teams, they are extremely effective however at championships they have other teams at the same level as them. There is no doubt that they are a force to be reckoned with and I would not be surprised to see at least 1 on Einstein.

[Greg Perkins]

I dont want this post to sound demeaning, but I am really curious.

With a triplet alliance such as the Niagara three's say one team goes out and gets #1 seed, another one of the bots is a sleeper somewhere in the top 20, and the other triplet plays awful and ends up in last place. Now #1 would pick the #2 triplet, and then they pick the #3 as thier last pick. Idea being that the "bad bot" just plays dumb all weekend and then when they get into the playoffs they are a force to be reckoned with.

Does anybody see this as a way to sabotage a regional? I mean it's not illegal in anymeans, but do you think anybody would do this?

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

I dont want this post to sound demeaning, but I am really curious.

With a triplet alliance such as the Niagara three's say one team goes out and gets #1 seed, another one of the bots is a sleeper somewhere in the top 20, and the other triplet plays awful and ends up in last place. Now #1 would pick the #2 triplet, and then they pick the #3 as thier last pick. Idea being that the "bad bot" just plays dumb all weekend and then when they get into the playoffs they are a force to be reckoned with.

Does anybody see this as a way to sabotage a regional? I mean it's not illegal in anymeans, but do you think anybody would do this?

It could be done. I can't see it happening though.

Another team would probably pick the low seeded one just to keep 3 of them from getting together.

[Richard Wallace]

Originally Posted by Cory

Another team would probably pick the low seeded one just to keep 3 of them from getting together.

You'd have to think very hard before not using your pick to take a Triplet if one is available.

[akshar]

The triplets are amazing. Together they are highly efficient, they also have a good design. However, teams are different everywhere. If in the other regionals there were better shooters, would the triplets have won? maybe, maybe not. It depends on the strategy and the way matches are played. The triplets are some of the best bots this year and play well together and individually.

[Richard Wallace]

Is 1680's ticket punched for Atlanta yet?

[AGadgetGeek]

Originally Posted by Cory

It could be done. I can't see it happening though.

Another team would probably pick the low seeded one just to keep 3 of them from getting together.

Yep, like we tried to do in Waterloo. They still won though =).

[Elgin Clock]

Originally Posted by Cory

Another team would probably pick the low seeded one just to keep 3 of them from getting together.

I know I would. It's a perfectly legal strategy to pick teams outside the top 8 so they can't join another lower alliance when you know they are gonna say no to you.

But will they say no? And if they say yes, would it be a bad thing?

[JamesBrown]

They could try but it would not have worked for this long, after the first regional teams would catch on remember their are 14 picks between the first and second picks of the first seed, even a triplet that seemed to have trouble would be picked up before that.


James


(also note that the triplets have no need to try anything less than honest to win they seem to do just fine the way they have been playing.)

[KenWittlief]

Originally Posted by Greg Perkins

With a triplet alliance such as the Niagara three's say one team goes out and gets #1 seed, another one of the bots is a sleeper somewhere in the top 20...

for any team to intentionally throw their matches so they end up low in the rankings would be unprofessional and incredibly poor sportsmanship

esp since they would be pulling down the other two alliance partners in each match.

Once teams caught on to what was going on they would be boo'd and taunted until my voice gave out! :^)

[Richard Wallace]

A great design concept, probably the best of the season.

Robust, reliable construction.

Extremely effective autonomous.

229/217/4 gave 1114/1503/865 the best run yet; it wasn't enough.

The Niagara Triplets rock!

[Joe J.]

Alone they are good but there are many other teams that have great shooters 469, 217, 111, 494, 70, and you can keep going. Together their almost unstoppable, but if you had two of any of the other teams I listed working together you would get the same result.

Not to insult them they have AMAZING robots, but because there are three of them opinions that they are the best may be unintentionally bias.