Abilities of the top teams at a regional?

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Originally Posted by MooreteP

Because, if you miss, you have to waste time retrieving the bouncing ball.

A goalie bot can create all sorts of trouble for the 10 point goal.
Most balls will be launched from a low height, so any robot in front of your shooter becomes a time vampire. No assist points until a goal is scored. No new cycle until that goal is scored.

Well that's the point, don't shoot if you're know you'll miss. Same goes for the low goal. Defense can be played for any goal, so you better get around it if you'd like those assist points. I might even argue that the low goal may be easier to defend to since they are a very specific spot where the ball must enter as opposed to a whole wall of goal area that a defender would have to stop you from alining with, possibly within a quite large range of distances from the goal too.

Shooting from a large distance into the low goal seems more difficult than shooting large distance to the high goal, so you would probably be driving up to it. The defender knows where you're going (one you choose a goal), so they just have to plain get in your way.

Bottom line, defense will be there for any goal. Get around it if you want to score.


On another note, I think the coach will be much more critical this year too. This year as apposed to last year, just an OK match would be hard without good communication throughout the alliances (pre-match too).