2013 Midwest Regional

[GearsOfFury]

Originally Posted by Jibri Wright

The reason why we were the blockers was because we got inspected Thursday with the detachable blocker and it was already built. If you watch seeding match 2, that's when we first used it catching 2512 totally off guard. We were attempting to make a blocker for 2010 but we couldn't make a blocker that blocks from two directions in time.
The reason we needed a two-directional blocker like the one we had is because we found that defensive robots protecting a full court shooter tend to force a bot to turn sideways.
Not only that but we lost the quarterfinals in Milwaukee due to not efficiently blocking a full court shooter. Over spring break our driver and I, (our shooter) practiced some defensive strategies against full court shooters and a defensive bot. We had the most experience against them on our alliance.

Thanks for the explanation! I must admit, that was an effective blocker. I expect so see more like it when you know the defense can get you turned 90 degrees.