What did we learn from week 2 of the 2013 season?

[stuart2054]

Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence

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Stay and play full-court shooting can easily be taken down, but if you have a robot that can set up quickly, fire of a few accurate shots, and get the heck out of there and pyramid shoot when under defense, then go back to full-court when there's no defense, you've got yourself a strategically successful machine that can't be stopped.

I think after playing our first competion in week 2 but scouting week one that being flexible and relatively good at scoring from alternate positions will be important. Full court shooting when even 50% accurate cannot be left unchallenged unless there are no other effective shooters on the alliance of the full court team and two good shooters on the other alliance but the full court team can be shut down fairly easy with a defender with an 84 inch appendange. this ties up a robot to block but is preferable to unanswerewd points for the other alliance. if the full court shooter is effective at other positins it will keep the other allianc e guessing and be that much harder to defend.

We are not a full court shooter bur our experince was you have to keep the other alliance guessing. In early matches we went to midcourt and sucked up the extra discs in that area with our floor pick up. When that was defended more we went into the opposite side to get the discs there and used our speed to quickly get back to our position under the pyramid to shoot and go look for other discs and so on.

When a partner was shooting from our normal position we would shoot from outside the pyramid or work in beside them if there was room to shoot but do whatever you are doing fast and keep the other alliance guessing.

We have a pretty strong drive train so sometimes we would block a opponent from their feed station on our way to collect discs. It slowed us down but it also aggrevated the other team and put them off their strategy.

Adapt and over come.