pic: Duece Attempting to Remove A Spoiler

[smurfgirl]

I was slightly disappointed in spoiler use throughout the season. In the matches I coached, spoilers were my best friend (when using them against the other alliance... no one ever placed one against us.) We were prepared to take them off, but never had to, since we seemed to be the only ones to use them. I'm also surprised that at both the UTC CT Regional, which I attended, and at the many regionals whose webcasts I watched, I never saw anyone removing a spoiler. I'm beginning to wonder if people forget about the fact that they can remove them, since none of the other tubes may be removed. Just like how people forget to play them since they don't begin on the field.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by smurfgirl

I'm also surprised that at both the UTC CT Regional, which I attended, and at the many regionals whose webcasts I watched, I never saw anyone removing a spoiler. I'm beginning to wonder if people forget about the fact that they can remove them, since none of the other tubes may be removed. Just like how people forget to play them since they don't begin on the field.

L.A. and San Diego were not webcast, unfortunately--although teams there used the spoilers a bit, few spoilers even made it to the rack, let alone onto the rack. I can think of maybe two or three that made it on, and only one stayed on. (Trying to spoil one of 968's tubes that they just placed resulted in a flying spoiler within 5 seconds, if that. The one that stayed on did not affect the outcome of the match.) San Diego finals: Blue plays a spoiler, or starts to. Before the robot is within it's arm's length from the rack, one of the Red hybrids was all over it. The spoiler left the blue robot rather than face the Red defense.

[JohnMorenski]

We found spoilers very useful at the ends of matches, i see you guys did too lol

we were afraid of playing you guys we thought we were going to lose that match, were looking foward to seeing you in atlanta

good luck!!

[David]

Great Match.
Like John said we knew that it was going to be very hard (unlikely) to win. I was fully expecting you to remove the spoiler. It was probably the best match i saw in philly, other than when we beat the #2 alliance to advance, its always fun to beat MOE.

Also there were surprisingly few spoilers, but as this match shows they can be extremely useful

[slickguy2007]

We try to use the spoilers, but as soon as our opponents see us with one we get triple-teamed. Maybe that's a strategy in itself?

[David]

Originally Posted by slickguy2007

We try to use the spoilers, but as soon as our opponents see us with one we get triple-teamed. Maybe that's a strategy in itself?

Bring even a ringer to the other side and you will get double teamed. That frees up a partner to score 5 on his on