2012 Picklist Formation and Strategy

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Cory

It sounds to me like you clearly knew what you were doing and were trying to cause your opponent penalties through your actions for the sake of causing penalties, not as a byproduct of legitimate gameplay.

This is G45 in action, is it not? Perhaps I am misunderstanding you and you are not bragging about causing your opponent to take penalty points.

We were not trying to win with fouls. We were trying to get robots balanced. 25 and 1640 were battling for position to try and get the bridge lowered, and I think that the majority of the fouls occurred prior to the third robot (341) arriving. Keep in mind that 25's bridge lowering maneuver is a wheelie with a running start; they had to keep backing up and trying again in order to have a shot at getting the bridge down.

With the clock ticking down, I told our driver to try and dislodge 1218's robot from its position in front of the bridge. They have a long robot and I was hoping that by pushing them from a corner, we could "spin" them out of their position at the front of the bridge. You can see from the video that we were able to turn them out of position partially, but still didn't give 25 enough room. I believe that at no point 1218 was truly "pinned in" - had they applied forward throttle they would have scooted out towards the co-op bridge.

You can see what I mean here:
http://youtu.be/w2bQ_frSNlk?t=1m57s

The discussion with the referees prior to the match was to clarify that trying to balance a bridge is "within the spirit of the game" and not an abuse of G44. It's exactly like lining up for a key shot; you can keep hitting a blocking robot until they move out of your way.