The Chokehold Strategy

[Hubicki]

This strategy only really applies to Qualification matches. I'm not posting this strategy because I like it or have ever used or been tempted to use it. In fact, I think it is very cheap and unFIRST-like. I just want teams to be aware of it because it will only benefit their team and the entire game if it is never implemented again (or is countered effectively). Teams should plan against this for crucial matches near the end of the Q-matches.

Any team that is in a match that looks pretty grim and is most likely low in the ranks and "doesn't have anything to lose", if one or two of the losing team's robots is in their own end-zone, the losing team can simply pull their robots from the end-zone to spite the other alliance. It's simple, it's cruel, I despise it, and it's almost ingenious. This implements a theoretical "chokehold" on the dominant alliance. The dominant alliance must accept a 30-60 point QP deduction, because if the dominant alliance applies any tactics to get the other alliance more points to compensate, then the losing alliance simply pulls back their robots to make their loss a win.

The only form of counter for this strategy (that I can think of) is to some how baracade their endzone so the robots can't get in or out. This would be most effective by using goal carrying robot as a form of moving road block. Physically pushing robots into the endzone, is very tricky because you might end up in the endzone yourself. I am welcome to any other ideas.

~Hubicki~

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