Inbounding or Hoarding Balls

[Joe Johnson]

Riddle me this batman...

It's show time on Einstein...

Blue alliance is a 3 balancing team. Red is not -- 2 balance max.

As long as Red cannot out score Blue by 20 points, the game is over.

Assume both red and blue score the same or similar scores in hybrid. I am guessing 32 is a common hybrid score -- perfect is 36. Say they tie 32-32

Of the 6 balls on the field, only the 2 on the Coopertition Bridge are in play (really), let's give those 2 to Red.

So... Red has access to 10 balls (including the ones with their inbounders and the on their bridge plus the middle bridge)

Blue has access to 8 balls.

After securing their 8 balls, Blue parks a robot in their Alley .9 robot widths from the window.

Blue inbounders in drop the balls in bounds between the Blue Window minder

Red scores 3 pts on all 10 balls (say). All 10 balls end up between the Blue Window Minder robot and the corner or in a Blue robot.

There are no more balls for Red to score.

Blue just keeps the balls away from Red by sitting in their alley and perhaps move to make sure every robot has 3 balls ready to score in each robot, but otherwise they spend the whole match sitting in their alley lined up to do a 3 point balance at the last minute.

Red, can do nothing but watch.

I was going to say that this is a guaranteed win for Blue but if Red scored all 10 balls in the 3pt hoop, they are winning by 30 points. If Red can do a 2 Robot Balance,

In which case, then Blue a robots will have to some how score 10+ points before they make their move... ...whoa, that'll be an AWESOME finish for Einstein...

...dang...

There is a TON to like about this game and I can't find anything seriously wrong with it yet.

Is this going to be THE YEAR that FIRST has that Killer Game we've all been pining for?

...Time will tell, but I think maybe so...

Joe J.