Wall 'o Boxes

[sevisehda]

If you hit the wall and knock 29 boxes into your zone you have 2 advantages. 29 extra boxes and control of the ramp. The opposing team has to 1) remove boxes from your zone 2) get boxes into there zone 3) secure the ramp. The team who hit the wall first just has to defend. The opping team literally has to fight an uphill battle.

Saying that teams didn't stack well because bots were incomplete and drivers hadn't practiced yet is just copping out. The teams who ramp-domed and knocked down the walls first had the same amount of time to build/practice. This year stacking was more complex than ever, maybe to hard.


I'm going to base the following figuring alliances constructed for finals which include a ramp-dom and 2 low-riding stackers, (random bots in qualifying doesn't matter in the end)...

Scenario 1: Blue RampDom, Stacker vs. Red RampDom, Stacker

Auto: Blue rampdom hits the wall knocks it down lowers wings.
Blue stacker clears human player boxes.
Red rampdom is to slow to hit the wall.
Red stacker clears human player
Human: Blue ramp-dom fends of red ramp-dom. Red ramp-dom fights for hill or clears boxes. Red stacker try to move boxes over bar then stack. Blue stacker holds red stacker at the alley.
End: Blue gets 25 + any missed boxes.
Red gets little to none.

Scenario 2: Blue RampDom, Stacker vs. Red 2 stackers(there
rampdom was useless against blues last match).
Auto: Blue rampdom hits the wall knocks it down lowers wings.
Blue stackers clears human player boxes.
Red stacker heads to wall.
Red stacker clears human player.
Human: Blue rampdom holds ramp. Red stackers then clear the boxes out of blue zone and try to move them over the bar onto there side. Then they go under the bar and try to stack those boxes on there side. Blue stacker holds red stacker at the alley. A red bot could try to dislodge the ramp-dom but chances are they'd just waste there time.
End: Blue gets 25 + any missed boxes.
Red gets little to none.

In either scenario the team that loses the wall has a distinct disadvantage. They have to much to do in to little time. With the reports of how slow/difficult it is to stack i'd say theres little hope.