Goalie Bots

[Canon reeves]

Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14

After watching some of the competitions from over the weekend I'm much less skeptical of the goalie strategy and I actually think that this could be fairly viable now. Just from watching Southfield and 4854 (I think, my apologies if the number is wrong) a goalie caused serious havoc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GxroA_wcIo (Southfield QF1-1)

Are there any teams out there that are dedicated goalies or are considering to have a goalie strategy in their back pocket? Particularly any auton goalies that are willing to share their secrets.

From what I saw the bot never actually blocked in the goalie zone as in extending in it, but it did play good defense, but then again any robot can, here is Team Texplosion, they were in the Alamo Finals http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkqRNhau6Ik I really want to see a goalie bot block some high goal shots, it seems like this robot knows when to and when not to goalie the high goal. Good goalie will be smart enough to only block when needed and play good defense when not!