Best/Strangest Defense Techniques

[ericand]

Originally Posted by Stephi Rae

To add to zach's comment. Yeah that was us, and we scored the spoiler three times during the quarters, semi's, finals... then we also almost scored it another time on an empty spider leg, but we were able to get it off and keep going with it... that was pretty interesting. Holding the spoiler made it easier to block more area because we have a stationary arm with a rotating jaw (grabber). In portland it was like a magnet, we were automatically double teamed everytime we took out a spoiler, giving our alliance partners free reign over the rack. In vegas that didn't happen quite as often, but as I said, it gave us more blocking power, and we could score the spoiler when the time came for it. All in all worked pretty well.

Actually, if an alliance partner is nearby to score over the spoiler (that is on a leg by itself) this can be a good thing. The ringer on the outside of the spoiler counts and the spoiler on the inside makes the leg full (and thus not spoilable). The inside spoiler can't be removed because doing so would require descoring the ringer - so you have a situation that is equivilant to a keeper. I wouldn't expect this situation to arise very often.