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

[Pault]

I guess now that the season is over I may as well reveal the strategy that we wanted to use, but didn't. FYI, we knew it would have taken a really good shooter to execute, and would only work when partnered with a special few robots (probably 2-4 at any given competition). We were going to make sure that we could play the game the "normal" way before we could play it this way.

The prerequisite is a partner robot that can catch and can shoot into either the high or low goal from directly in front of the low goal (obviously high goal is better). They would stay in that position for the entire match. Your robot, which is a tall shooter, would park in the low goal corner on the opposite end of the field, get fed a ball from the HP, pass it full court to your partner robot, and they score it. The 3rd robot would play defense.

10pts truss
10pts catch
10pts 2 assists
1/10pts score
= 31/40pts per cycle

Now, the full court pass may sound crazy, but we were getting well more than 54ft of distance with our flywheel shooter during our robot's early stages (later changes unintentionally decreased that distance dramatically). The real question is whether you can get the accuracy, but I think that a good team could have tuned it enough to be reasonable (I would say you need 66% accuracy for this strategy to be really effective). Game breaking strategy, we just didn't have the capacity to execute it.