Those Tense Moments

[StephLee]

What tense, exciting game strategies have you seen so far this year?

At Pittsburgh this past weekend during the qualifiers, our alliance was down. Badly. A row of 7 to our single tube, all on the bottom row, with one of our partners climbing another for a 30 point bonus. We tossed a spoiler out, and managed to place it, but the tube behind it was resting on a keeper on the ground, and the spoiler was resting on the foot and the tube behind it. Our driver tried to run back into the rack to knock it into place, but we ran out of time just as he hit the joystick.

We ended up losing 128 to 22 with a penalty on our side. Had the spoiler been on all the way, it would have been a 22 to 16 victory for us. That match just shows how close this year's matches can be even if the final score doesn't show it.


What has everyone else seen so far that made you hold your breath?

[cziggy343]

in the semi-finals at vcu, our alliance appeared to have a victory. we had three tubes in a row, and the other alliance had four, but we had both of our robots up with ten seconds to go. the other alliance had one robot up, but the other robot went to place a tube with ten to go. they didn't place the tube, but quickly ran back, got lifted, and they won 68-64.

[mizscience]

In the Florida Regional Final Match 3 [both alliances had 1 victory], both the red alliance [1251, 1270, 86] and the blue alliance [1902, 179, 386] had 5 ringers each, and both had 1 robot up on the ramp. But 86's ramp [for the red alliance] did not deploy the entire way and 1251 could not get up on it; at the same time, team 386 went onto team 179's ramp after 1902 - and proceeded to bump them off slightly into a ringer that was lying against the back wall, then not be able to get up themselves. It was a reallllly tense wait to find out who the regional winner was, as neither alliance knew the details of what had happened in those last 25 seconds to the other alliance; turned out to be the red alliance [1251, 1270, 86] winning 62-32. It was an amazing regional to watch and take part in.