Interaction with other robots

[Max Lobovsky]

I was rather disappointed last year to realize that many teams (sometimes it seemed like the majority of teams) seemed to ignore any plans you would make before the match and it was very rare to find a coach you could actually work with in the middle of the match. I saw this across the board of experienced and inexperienced teams and the effect definitley was horrible.

Of course, this is understandable. Teams spend months preparing for a just a few matches of competition and it is kind of hard to change your strategies and possibly lose because of what someone else is saying.

I don't see any reason for the situation to improve this year, but there is definitley reason for it to get worse. With 3 robots, getting 3 drive teams together before matches and talking will be more challenging and with the chaos of a 3 alliance game, you can pretty much forget about in game team work.

[DarkJedi613]

Originally Posted by SoccerNerd36

How are you guys creating a strategy that incorporates interaction with other robots? In other words, how can you plan what you want to do if you dont know what other robots in your alliance are going to do?

I don't think you can really plan what you're going to do, sure you can have basic strategy, but it'll have to change somewhat each match depending on your two alliance partners and the opposing alliance.

Usually we meet with our alliance right after the previous match (i.e. we meet with our Match 2 Alliance right after our first match), talk strategy with them, etc. then go prepare our robots and finalize strategy in queue.