unique strategies that worked....... or didn't

[Chinmay]

Which is why I think the large amounts of technical fouls were called in those matches... I think you're going a bit far by implying that the strategy that the other alliance used was to break your alliances robots. Things break when defense is played... Fouls are called

Back on subject, I think that one of the most effective things I saw was the "pass back" to a human player but bouncing the ball off a robot, or throwing it into a robot and having the robot spit it right back out.

Another team effectively set up the equivalent of a "full court shot" for this years game by inbounding straight to a truss shot that would land near the far wall every time. Freed up the last robot to always play defense.

As for the strategy you guys used, I think that the number of offensive versus defensive robots each side chose to use in a match was almost like a Rock Paper Scissors game. The team with the lower chance of winning needs to switch things up because head to head, they wouldn't stand a chance. I saw a match earlier in the season with an autonomous mode followed by a 3 man defense for the win. All depends on the situation