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Re: Week 2 Strategies
The Coopertition bridge, now more than ever, rewards teams that know how to play the game, leaving in the dust teams who disregard it. However, it rewards teams with mediocre robots that know how to play the game and can take advantage of it. If you take it every match, you can seed quite high and be guaranteed a pick. It also lowers the seeds of good teams that miss it a time or two, making eliminations incredibly exciting to watch because finally, the blue alliance can win. We beat the 3rd alliance at FLR as the 6th, and it was without doubt due to the seeding system. I will write more in depth about impressions for Week 2 Regional tomorrow, when I have more than 12 hours of sleep in the past three days.
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The red alliance won only three times at Chesapeake- the first seed won its first pairing, then lost to the fifth seed, the 7th seed beat the 6th seed, (7th was red because it was the survivor of the 2v7 match, while 6th won the 3v6 match), and the fifth seed finally won overall. To phrase that in a slightly more readable manner, the blue alliance won slightly more than half the games, and I think you hit the nail on the head when you said it was because of the new seeding system. Several teams on the top 4 seeded alliances had significantly higher standings because of CP, and were actually weaker than many others in terms of strength. |
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Also, I would say that in some events it was the case that the blue alliances won (Chesapeake, Oregon, WPI) but for other events it seems like the top seeds are winning as normal. Kettering, Hatboro-Horsham, Chestnut Hill, and especially Waterford (All red alliances won/advanced) are examples of this. |
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In response to your second point, yes, red alliances can still win. In the two regional events that I watched bad scouting and good strategy played as much a role as anything else. But three regional events with major upsets says to me that there is a little more unpredictability in who wins a regional. |
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Re: Week 2 Strategies
Yeah, a team seeded low in the top 8 can, with good scouting and strategy, go on to do very well this year. The game puts more emphasis on overarching strategy than any other I have seen.
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