Question of the Week!!! (6/3/04)

[Corey Balint]

I think allowing goaltending would have been a great way to increase play. It would make people really think of different ways to score or prevent scoring or doing both at the same time.

[opnickc]

Originally Posted by boodah

I think allowing goaltending would have been a great way to increase play. It would make people really think of different ways to score or prevent scoring or doing both at the same time.

I disagree. If that were so, it would be much more difficult to score with balls, and the whole game would pretty much have been determined by who could hang the best. Of course, many teams goaltended anyway. . .



I think the 10pt balls should've been worth 10 points to hit, not just if you scored one. I think more teams would've designed bots to accomplish this task, hence more would get into the whole autonomous thing. Yes, our team didn't hit the ball, but we did desin an autonomous program that grabbed both the portable goal and the doubler ball, since that was more important to our strategy than getting the early ball drop. The point is, there wasn't enough motivation for teams to make a successful autonomous program. Many just seemed to move forward, and others had none at all. Last year, having a successful autonomous period gave you a huge advantage, in my opinion (remember team 71?). There just wasn't enough of an incentive to hit that ball this year.

[Alex Cormier]

clarification on the ruling on goal tending with the big yellow ball under the waterfall... also let the robots score all the balls.

[Corey Balint]

Originally Posted by opnickc

I disagree. If that were so, it would be much more difficult to score with balls, and the whole game would pretty much have been determined by who could hang the best. Of course, many teams goaltended anyway. . . .

What i meant though was that teams would have to be more creative in ways of scoring. Say pusing pvc pipes apart to allow the balls to be shot in between them. And i never noticed much goaltending. Just creative ways to block them from scoring. Like capping the goal before they had any.