Who will top Rumble IV?

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Posted by Tom Wible.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Coach on team #131, chaos, from central high school manchester and osram-sylvania.

Posted on 6/7/99 7:09 PM MST


In Reply to: Who will top Rumble IV? posted by colleen on 6/7/99 9:41 AM MST:



I think all of the teams will have had enough time to optimize thier strategies, so you will see a higher level of play at Rumble.
Most of the teams will not be making any of the mistakes that they might have made in any of the FIRST events. It will be tough.
For example, in order to beat some of the strong teams, you may have to attack thier weak point, which at first may not be so obvious.
If an alliance has good puck control and climbing abilities (including pole climbing), you may be able to beat them by blocking them when they go for floppies.
Another tactic we've used is what I call positional advantage. You can usually tell who will be going after the post if one of the opposing teams is a pole grabber.
All you have to do is have one of your robots run interference on the pole grabber(getting between the puck and the grabber works well) until one of your robots is on the puck, then have the robot on the puck defend the posts from on top.
Now the original robot is free to get floppies, etc. Of course all of this works around the ability to read the situation and react quickly on the field.
I think the teams which did well in Florida, but did not win will be the ones to watch at Rumble 99.

Tom Wible
(it's pronounced 'Y-bull')
TEAM C.H.A.O.S.