pic: The Ultimate Stack

[Paul Copioli]

A few things,

This was match #4 at Finger Lakes. 217 and 229 were "trading punches" trying to get ownership of that goal. In the end, 229 descored themselves so that goal was 12 points red and 12 points blue with blue owning the goal. we (blue) lost that match. I do not recommend this strategy, it was done to see how high the stack could go without tipping over (our team had an internal debate). I was trying to prove that 10 or more could be stacked on the side goals and still be stable.

Next, the rules for descoring at the top of a goal are as follows:

1. If you descore your opponents tetra, then they own the goal and they get the points for their descored tetra(s).

2. There is no penalty assesed, but the goal can no longer be owned by you.

-Paul

[Koko Ed]

I hope to see video of the match some time soon.
It was great to watch live.

[Jay Trzaskos]

Here is another picture of that same stack. Sorry the color is so dark.
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/pi...&quiet=Verbose

JT
229

[Clark Gilbert]

Here is one with the color corrected a little bit.



Looks impressive.

[JVN]

This is the match our scouts described as:
"John and Paul's ego trip" it is also known as "The Pissing Contest".

This was 229's first qualification match of the day, and the general strategy was to play "volume offense" while our partners worked on the other goals.

This was 217's first qualification match of the day, and the general strategy was to play "volume offense" while their partners worked on the other goals.

The result was what you see here.
The "twins" faced off. The chickens started off blue, we countered with a double stack of red, then it went 1 for 1 from there.
9 were stacked, #10 and #11 were in the air above, and #9 ended up getting knocked off.


Not a bad way to start off the regional.
The crowd loved it, and so did we.
John

PS - 217 and 229 Dueled 3 times at Finger Lakes. All were spectacular matches. I hope video gets up eventually.

[Steve W]

John, the videos i got were from the PM on Friday, last 8 matches Saturday and the elims. Sorry I don't have the video for that match.

That was a high stack but there were matches that were just about as close but on 3 goals. Congrats to all teams at FLR as it was a great event to be at. All of the teams were exciting. Made my job real easy.

[Jay Trzaskos]

As the arm operator for 229 this was a great way to put our machine to the test for our first qualification match. It was amazing to see how these reliable machines held up against each other.

This is the match our scouts described as:
"John and Paul's ego trip" it is also known as "The Pissing Contest".

This was defiantly John and Paul's way of showing what our robots could do. I must say once again (as in previous threads) that it was such an honor to work with the Thunder Chickens.

JT
229