Defense in Ultimate Ascent

[Lil' Lavery]

Why are we only focusing on defending FCS? It's really easy to defend most cycling robots as well.

Originally Posted by CENTURION

This is another interesting thing about Ultimate Ascent.

In most games, something like a FCS would be unstoppable force. Imagine a robot in Rebound Rumble that could sink three-pointers from that feeding slot, it would be king of the field.

Remember that human players acquired the balls when the other alliance scored. A full court shooter would not have been particularly game breaking in 2012.

Originally Posted by pntbll1313

That sounds like a decent strategy and would result in a net gain for your alliance. The problem is that all of the teams with a 7 disk auto must fit under the 30” pyramid bar. I haven’t seen one that can then extend up to 84” and effectively block a tall full court shooter. If you are one of those teams and decide to go that route I would suggest you reconsider. I think your floor pickup (which you must have for the 7 disk) would be wasted sitting parked on the opposite end of the field.

In order to block a FCS, they're on their offensive side of the field. If the FCS leaves to run cycles/hang, 2474 could use their ground pickup to scoop up any blocked shots.