Best Game STRATEGY

[Liz C]

Originally Posted by Gdeaver

Penalties = lost match. With the way First refs have been handing out penalties any defensive strategy is risky.

yes, this is definitly the case. Many times, our alliance parters and our team would concentrate on the home row and center row, with robot 1 capping home, and 2 and 3 concentrating on center. Having two on center helped because that is where most of the "action" is. Sometimes confident alliances would go over and cap a corner goal on the opponents side. When successful, this would always win the match, but its risky, and since your in their side there are three major problems (they can easily recap, as it is their side, it is obviously harder to see and the risk of penalties is large). If we were up against a strong opponent, we generally didn't even go near the idea of capping their goals. When the home and center rows were all owned (in your favor), we generally decided to cap the center rows if we had time, to make it harder for those who could not cap high; however, this occasion was rare. Also, this may seem simple, but it helped us win a few times: if you are planning on capping a home goal, and getting behind the line, just bring the tetra with you and get behind the line. Its so simple, but may not be thought of during those last few seconds of the game.