First Week Regionals *Merged*

[whakojacko]

our arm fell almost fully extended holding a tetra onto one of the side rails . It unlinearized our linear bearings, sigh. We also went with the 6 wheel design and liked it. We had a custom gearbox with shifters, but didnt shift a lot.

Also realized just how important strategy is this year, i cannot stress this enough. Our plan that let us, 245, and 766 go lossess in elims was the result of 2 hours of thinking friday night at the hotel. When we had started qualifiers on friday, we originall were ranked 3 at lunch. However, teams figured out that our big capping capability was neutralized by a moderate pushing bot. So every match in the afternoon we faced alliances which sent their worst capping bot at us, with a decent amount of success that had dropped us to 14th by the selections on saturday. However with a strategy that our team got down from playing lots of rounds together we were effective in neutralizing pushing bots against us. Strategies like this were so effective against pushing bots that we really had no troubles getting pushed around in elims. So for other regionals, teams GET A GOOD STRATEGY!

[Alex1072]

Originally Posted by whakojacko

our arm fell almost fully extended holding a tetra onto one of the side rails . It unlinearized our linear bearings, sigh. We also went with the 6 wheel design and liked it. We had a custom gearbox with shifters, but didnt shift a lot.

Also realized just how important strategy is this year, i cannot stress this enough. Our plan that let us, 245, and 766 go lossess in elims was the result of 2 hours of thinking friday night at the hotel. When we had started qualifiers on friday, we originall were ranked 3 at lunch. However, teams figured out that our big capping capability was neutralized by a moderate pushing bot. So every match in the afternoon we faced alliances which sent their worst capping bot at us, with a decent amount of success that had dropped us to 14th by the selections on saturday. However with a strategy that our team got down from playing lots of rounds together we were effective in neutralizing pushing bots against us. Strategies like this were so effective against pushing bots that we really had no troubles getting pushed around in elims. So for other regionals, teams GET A GOOD STRATEGY!

The strategy we developed in the hotel was for the last two rounds of the seeding rounds. Team 766 deserves the credit for our elimination strategy. Also, although we did get a lot of pushing because Spark was such a huge "hit me" target, the major improvement was in driver strategy rather then global strategy. Patrick Wang gave us some good pointers on driving Friday night that we really appreciate. Thanks Patrick!

PS: Obviously the robots sent to play defense wern't the "worst bots", they were very effective in stopping us for half of friday, and were valuable to their partners. I'm curious what role they'll have as the strategies evolve and gameplay changes.

[tbmantia]

Originally Posted by Alex1072

The strategy we developed in the hotel was for the last two rounds of the seeding rounds. Team 766 deserves the credit for our elimination strategy. Also, although we did get a lot of pushing because Spark was such a huge "hit me" target, the major improvement was in driver strategy rather then global strategy. Patrick Wang gave us some good pointers on driving Friday night that we really appreciate. Thanks Patrick!

PS: Obviously the robots sent to play defense wern't the "worst bots", they were very effective in stopping us for half of friday, and were valuable to their partners. I'm curious what role they'll have as the strategies evolve and gameplay changes.

What did you all do differently during the elimination rounds?

[Alex1072]

Originally Posted by tbmantia

What did you all do differently during the elimination rounds?

We took advantage of the fact that defensive robots have to react to us, not the other way around. Basically we moved around more and used the loading zone to discourage people from touching us.