Where's the defense this year?

[OneAngryDaisy]

Originally Posted by David Bridge

There were a lot of teams who tried to defend against 177 scoring small balls in the Philly finals. All day friday and into thursday we had been racking up small ball points (up to 90 in a round where our partner did not work at all) without once having the goal capped. We went up against some pretty fierce hangers in the eliminations (most notably 341) who tried to prevent us from getting the small balls. The only problem was that we were so efficient with them that we would score our points, then procede to keep the team which had previously been defending us from hanging with our beefy drive train (thanks to 45)

177 was just insane, like I said in a previous thread we couldn't ignore them or they would rack up 100 points with balls alone... so we pushed both goals in their ball chute and hit them just as the balls fell.. it worked until we went to hang and realized while we were tussling with 177 our hook fell off :/, so we went and sucked up some balls... Their nice drivetrain was able to dislodge the mobile goal, and both of us filled up our goals until the buzzer. two penalties did us in, and we lost 60-70, but I'm proud to say we lost to the winning alliance of the Philadelphia Regional, because nobody could stop them from delivering all those balls.

What amazed me most was 177's drivetrain. I would've thought that with two omniwheels they wouldn't be strong, but they were pushing around other robots like rag dolls during the rest of the playoffs. Just wait until they get their hook working.. scary thought, eh?