Week 3 analysis

[Mike Schreiber]

First thoughts looking back at our scouting and the discussion of our elimination strategy:

The ability to score under/around defense is what makes or breaks top bots.

Stopping the truss shot to the human player and forcing the opposing alliance to go pick up the ball adds a lot of time to the cycle. This is a difficult feet because you basically have to ensure the robot stays facing the goal so the ball will not go out of bounds and end up at the human player.

2 Assist cycles if executed quickly can outscore 3 assist cycles (secret sauce speeds this up substantially).

Versatility in your alliance is super helpful: three robots that can pick up, truss, score high, and play defense at all other times can adapt to any other alliance. Many alliances ran into the issue of being forced to score low by the way they picked their teams - this is much easier to defend.

Defense is essential, but if your score is lower than your opponent it does you no good to forgo assists for defense

Along with that last one, winning auton and playing heavy defense the entire match is a viable strategy

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