Our answer to the long range shooter

[xSAWxBLADEx]

Originally Posted by 2789_B_Garcia

2468 has a very reliable full-court shooter...in fact, they were the only full-court shooter at Alamo. We know that if we (a small defensive robot with a good drivetrain) went into elims with them and a small & quick pyramid shooter (our good friends at 4063), we had a good chance at winning...and it was exactly through the strategy mentioned above (and a few others) that we were able win.

It was this same combo with 118 and 148 that won at Lone Star this year.

2468 has been the most devastating full court shooter I've seen this year. It is amazing that they can shoot from literately everywhere. Also, great job 2789. You guys gave 2468 the space they needed. Perfect Alliance!

[2789_B_Garcia]

Originally Posted by xSAWxBLADEx

2468 has been the most devastating full court shooter I've seen this year. It is amazing that they can shoot from literately everywhere. Also, great job 2789. You guys gave 2468 the space they needed. Perfect Alliance!

Thanks!

[friskywombat]

Originally Posted by xSAWxBLADEx

2468 has been the most devastating full court shooter I've seen this year. It is amazing that they can shoot from literately everywhere. Also, great job 2789. You guys gave 2468 the space they needed. Perfect Alliance!

Thanks, we appreciate the recognition. I think mobility is the root of our success as a full-court shooter. From the beginning of the season, people have been saying that full-courters are easily defendable with a tall blocking mechanism ("unappreciators"). We try to work around the tall defensive bots by being fluid and mobile on the other side of the field. We have the ability to feed from both sides, shoot from both sides, and switch between left and right quickly if we are affronted by a tall bot. (As opposed to most full-court shooters that I have seen who will switch to being cycle-runners to the pyramid when defended). And, yes, having 2789 keep away strong defenders such as 457 and 3545 was an immense help to us.

[Amy_LeadFerret]

Yeah, we were pretty proud of our long range shooter and its performance in Match 51 at the Wisconsin Regional. We've honored it in this (rather grainy) video made by one of the team members - from the perspective of the FCS team, of course.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TechnoFerrets

We appreciated all the teams on our alliances who forfeited their own potential disc points to be defender defender bots in order to give our bot the opportunity to do its thing, as well as the alliance partners who passed their frisbees to our human loader as our bucket ran dry. In a rather strange way, we're pleased to have provided that competitive edge that caused other teams to have to scramble (and even post pics of their alliance partners and pit neighbors assisting with jerry rigging!) to figure out how to shut us down. All in all, an amazing three days in Milwaukee!

[PVCpirate]

The face is a nice touch, I bet it would frustrate an opposing team even more if they're getting blocked by a big face.

[bs7280]

Originally Posted by PVCpirate

The face is a nice touch, I bet it would frustrate an opposing team even more if they're getting blocked by a big face.

It was especially hilarious when their bot left to climb, we bashed into their drivers station at full speed with the face looking directly at them