blocking

[matt111]

i see how some think this is "mean" or "un-Firstlike" but what about last year. teams were pinned and blocked all over the place and First didnt ever really adress it to my knowledge...again this was just my idea, not like our team is gonna pull a wildstang on the corrals

i agree with the people about the wins and losses. i think that if u win all ur matchs, it wont matter much. but i guess this idea is scratched.

PS i wonder if we could throw the balls AT the bots, thus destroying the precious lego tracking systems and then win it all

[iCHiMaHoCV]

LoL, that would REALLY suck and I don't think that is legal because its intentional damage to the bot, so don't go trying that! LoL =P

[BandChick]

Originally Posted by matt111

PS i wonder if we could throw the balls AT the bots, thus destroying the precious lego tracking systems and then win it all

and you don't think THAT is against gracious professionalism???

[KenWittlief]

the way I understand it, teams will be ranked by how many matches they won

and within THOSE ranks, they will be ranked by the game scores they have accumulated.

so if 10 teams win all their matches, those 10 will be ranked by the scores they accumulated - the team that always won by 100 to 0 would be at the bottom of that set

then the teams that only lost one match will be under those, ranked again by their accumulated scores

then the teams that lost 2 matches...

and by accumulated scores, I mean the score the loosing team got in each match

so if you took the trash and burn approach, and always won your matches, but accumulated few scoreing points, it could easily backfire on you - if you lost your last match due to a problem with your bot, or your alliance bot, whatever - you could easily find yourself at the bottom of the second tier - teams who lost one match, and you would be at the bottom - maybe 20th place overall - inthis game there is more than one way that you can hang yourself :^)

I suspect there will be some blocking of the corrals, either from bots just being on the other side of the field, or from porta-goals dragged over there, or 2x balls ending up in the corner - so I dont think they will decide you cant 'intentionally' block the other teams corral, because intention is subjective

you might pull the other teams portagoal next to their corral so they CAN score more points (cause they are not doing well) and then you would be called for blocking?! I dont think so.

[matt111]

ooo never thought of that. thats clever

[Tytus Gerrish]

but then if you had all their balls they would get zero points and you would get zero points

[Warren Boudreau]

Did any of you notice that there are two ball chutes on each side of the field. You can block one, but you would have a hard time blocking both.

[IMDWalrus]

Originally Posted by Warren Boudreau

Did any of you notice that there are two ball chutes on each side of the field. You can block one, but you would have a hard time blocking both.

Good observation.

I have a feeling that this will be illegal soon - FIRST will probably make this action illegal in one of the rules updates. In any case, it's not at all good for your ranking - your scores would be low, and you'd plummet in the case of ties.