Team Update 2-19 and FRC Blog - Week 0 Observations and Stop Build Day

[Gray Adams]

I've been completely isolated from any team or strategy for the last 5 weeks so maybe I haven't disocvered a lot of things you guys have, but I really don't see a massive strategy change. Whether or not there was a flood of frisbees in the endgame I still would have wanted a robot that picks up off the floor. It surprises me that teams would decide on picking up off the floor based on the last 30 seconds of throwing alone. My former team decided to pick up off the ground and climb for 30 points in the initial few strategy meetings (not sure what their plans are now, but I digress) because the intent was to pick frisbees up from missed shots, not just for the end of the game. Sure there's going to be a few less discs around, but at high levels of play human players seem to avoid the blizzard just to starve the opponents. What kind of change are we really going to see?

Sorry guys, I really don't see a big change in the way the game is played.