Plays of the Year

[nutron5skills]

two part question.

1. What was your teams greatest play this season? (from the first match to the final match)

2. What was the FIRST play of the year?

[Goldeye]

I can't answer 1, really, but I think it's fair to say the single greatest play, if only because of its consequences, took place in the very last match.
A team on the red alliance (I think 190) pushed a tube onto 71's ramp. This play ultimately prevented the blue alliance from ramping a second robot (179) and allowed red's 5 point victory. It was a brilliant play using strategy to counter an alliance with stronger robots.

[SteveO]

Originally Posted by Goldeye

I can't answer 1, really, but I think it's fair to say the single greatest play, if only because of its consequences, took place in the very last match.
A team on the red alliance (I think 190) pushed a tube onto 71's ramp. This play ultimately prevented the blue alliance from ramping a second robot (179) and allowed red's 5 point victory. It was a brilliant play using strategy to counter an alliance with stronger robots.

It was actually 987 that did that as 190 waited with the ramp ready to go. As both teams seemed very ramp cautious with ramps deployed well in advance of the 15 second end, 987 put the tube they had on the ramp without penalty. I don't know if they had planned that beforehand, or came up with it on the spot, but it looked really cool on the webcast. Wish I could have been there to see it in person.

[Greg Marra]

Originally Posted by SteveO

It was actually 987 that did that as 190 waited with the ramp ready to go. As both teams seemed very ramp cautious with ramps deployed well in advance of the 15 second end, 987 put the tube they had on the ramp without penalty. I don't know if they had planned that beforehand, or came up with it on the spot, but it looked really cool on the webcast. Wish I could have been there to see it in person.

If last year's "A-Bomb" was loading balls from your robot into an alliance's robot, then this year's A-Bomb is certaily what 987 did in the waning seconds of this year's championship. They placed the blue ringer in their claw on top of Team 71's deployed ramp, then dashed back to their own home zone to join Team 177 on top of Team 190's platforms. The play was brilliantly executed and extremely effective.

In the last fifteen seconds of the match, everyone in the audience knew that the only thing that mattered was if Swamp Thing could get on top of Beatty. The blue tube bounced them down the ramp once, and then it seemed as though they had gotten it out of the way and were going to make it up, but they apparently high-centered and got stuck for the last ten seconds. It was amazingly intense, and with the final score differing by only 5 points between the two alliances, it was what made all the difference.

Congratulations to all six teams duking it out in the finals on Einstein, but that is, in my opinion, the most ingenious play all year.

[Rich Ross]

the best play was when swamp thing "hit the Nos!" and made it up the ramp at some point during elims. it was amazing!

[Tottanka]

Best play off the year is in Newton match 40, executed by 111 on their partners 1574. You must see it.

[Nuttyman54]

Originally Posted by Tottanka

Best play off the year is in Newton match 40, executed by 111 on their partners 1574. You must see it.

I have to agree, this was pretty darn cool. For those of you who weren't there, 1574 got a ringer stuck on their flag. 111 proceeded to remove it and score with it.

[JoelGoering]

Originally Posted by Nuttyman54

I have to agree, this was pretty darn cool. For those of you who weren't there, 1574 got a ringer stuck on their flag. 111 proceeded to remove it and score with it.

Same thing happend to us (935) at the finals in KC. Our partner, 1775 did that same as wild stand and immediately scored the ringer.

[Joohoo]

personally I loved this play albeit a little biased but I loved our auton mode when the cam was calibrated

http://www.soap.circuitrunners.com/2...ew/new_066.wmv

[k4r3n2]

Rumor has it that if Wildstang gets a tube stuck on itself it can take it off, but I'm not sure if there's video of that. It was pretty cool to see it take the tube off of 1574 though, they went nuts in front of us! One of their kids said that they didn't know that Wildstang was good enough to do that

[Grant Cox]

My favorite play for us would be at St. Louis during one of the qualification matches. We were going for a row around the top, and an opposing alliance was trying to place their ringer to stop it from connecting. We slipped ours in literally right under theirs to score it before they did.

Play of the year is EASILY that Einstein match where 233 and 179 came racing across the field to get up on the ramp. 233 was hovering around the edge with ~5 seconds left, I thought "no way are they going to make it up in time, they're taking it easy and going slow." Then out of nowhere, 179 comes literally screaming across the field and shoots themselves up to the ramp just in time (as did 233 at almost the exact same time). It was incredible.

[pakratt1991]

My Favorite play this year was in Finals Match #2 at Pacific Northwest when 1087 was trying to get on our platform and our little ramps we had in front had taken a beating and didn't deploy. in trying to get over they tipped them selfs over backwards and then proceeded to right them selfs with their arm and drive forward before they were completely back on their base, they landed perfectly on our platform and we lifted them, winning the match and the elimination rounds

[StephLee]

Originally Posted by Rich Ross

the best play was when swamp thing "hit the Nos!" and made it up the ramp at some point during elims. it was amazing!

If you're talking about the match where both of 71's partners made it up the ramp in the last five seconds, I agree. That was quite amazing.

[deshirider430]

we lost this match in the finals because of our transmission plates, along with one of our alliance partners. And of course the other teams great skill, mainly.

But the play is when 75, 293 we're trying to complete a full row on the top rack, our human player stopped it by scoring on a spider leg on the top rack.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...p?matchid=1517

[KDawg]

Originally Posted by deshirider430

we lost this match in the finals because of our transmission plates, along with one of our alliance partners. And of course the other teams great skill, mainly.

But the play is when 75, 293 we're trying to complete a full row on the top rack, our human player stopped it by scoring on a spider leg on the top rack.

http://www.thebluealliance.net/tbatv...p?matchid=1517

I saw the video..honestly I don't think anything tops that on the excitement scale, awesome!