Lessons from Week 3

[EricH]

Originally Posted by sst.thad

Most of the same could be said over on the cascade field. Also, don't throw tubes onto the pole, because if it interferes with minibot deployment it is a red card. Our human player did this, but it did not interfere with the minibot, so it was all good. But they did say something about it.

A double red card was issued in the Arizona QFs--one was for tubing the pole (interfering with Minibot deployment); the other for something else.

The tubing the pole one was rescinded after somebody pointed out that the HP who threw the tube was on the affected alliance--but it sure looked like there would be a third match in that set.

Something I saw: Strategy, Strategy, Strategy. After 842, 330, and 2662 lost a semis match (blocked from the towers, and a red card on 330 for contact with a deploying robot), they re-strategized. The next match saw 330 and one of their partners waiting at towers ready to deploy well before the 15-second mark, before anybody was ready to defend the towers. (That was the one where a tower base plate came up while a tube was being picked up.) Two more matches with similar strategy later, and all three teams had blue banners.