Ultimate Alliance

[MrForbes]

HP loading is Payload Specialist loading, but using previous year's terminology (Human Player)

If you load up your robot in autonomous by having a human stuff balls into it, then you can get a really big score right away as soon as teleop starts.

Some teams figured this out early and used it very effectively.

[#2970-tim]

Thanks. I think we whould have done better then what we already have if we had decidied to go with the HP loading. We were thinking about it , but we wanted the human player to have fun as well. We wanted everyone to try to have fun. If we get into IRI i would like to do that.

[eschanz]

Well what about two power dumpers and one defense like 67,1918, and 1254.

we did not win state only because of some unfortunate events.(we ended up losing 4 matches that we should have won). the bigest upset is when 68 was on our team and their dumper i guess stoped working.

[Tyler Hicks]

1254 was a great defender, but human players might have a larger impact.

[hayleybayley217]

Originally Posted by eschanz

Well what about two power dumpers and one defense like 67,1918, and 1254.

we did not win state only because of some unfortunate events.(we ended up losing 4 matches that we should have won). the bigest upset is when 68 was on our team and their dumper i guess stoped working.

not to be rude... but are you blaming your lost at states on your qualification partners?! or am i have i mistaken this tone. 68 is an amazing team(no one pushes truck town) and yes their dumper had some troubles back at states but that does not mean that made you lose. every robot runs into difficult matches as well as unfortunate events. robots like to give you troubles... its like they have a mind of their own. they work to win but when no one is giving them attention they just want to break!( what Roxxy did to us sometimes)

i want to see how last years ultimate alliance of 148, 1114, and 217 can hold out in this year's game
maybe play an alliance of 67, 68, 111, 254, etc.

[Barry Bonzack]

I vastly underestimated 67's abilities despite seeing them in multiple events on webcast.

111 and 1625 are both amazing, I'd even say interchangable. I can't shake my initial feelings after week 1 and the Midwest regional that 1625 is one of the top robots in the world, and 71 even should have a say in this argument.

I also can't help my week 1 reactions when comparing 1114 and 217. It was fun watching 217 get better and better as the weeks went on, but 1114 is just darn right scary. I've seen video of them shooting over opponents, but seeing it with my own eyes is something else. Was any other robot able to be pinned in a corner and score 8 moonrocks in the opposing goal?

67, 1625, 1114

[swamp_child]

179, 1625, 1649

not to be vain or anything

[lenny8]

67.217 and 1625. i hope they meet up in IRI against us ( sarcasm )

[Aren_Hill]

Originally Posted by lenny8

67.217 and 1625. i hope they meet up in IRI against us ( sarcasm )

I'd be down for that lol

[hillale]

I think I might be sick at the thought of some of the alliances that will inevitably come out of IRI with the assumed lack of a serpentine draft.

On the Ultimate Alliance front, I'm going to call 111, 1625 and 71 for champs at IRI.

[dwaynetrip3119]

67, 217, 148 no doubt

[AdamHeard]

Not sure if we meet the qualification of ultimate, but 1717 and us have been wanting to team up all season. It'd certainly be a heck of a good time.

[A-train]

First off i would like to thank all of those that have put us in thier ultimate alliance pick.

Second, i would pick any of the following to make an ultimate alliance(in no particular order): 1625, 111, 67, 217, 2970, 234, 2753, 71, 45, 121, 2056, 1114, 1918, 469, 254, 968, etc. etc. There are way too many more.

[Adam Freeman]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

I vastly underestimated 67's abilities despite seeing them in multiple events on webcast.

Our style of play does not appear that dominant on the webcast, based on the way that they constantly switch camera views.

I am not sure any other team played the way that we did effectively, with multiple quick hitting smaller scores v. one or two larger scorers.

From what I noticed on the videos, it appears that we are only scoring 2-4 balls when we are on camera. What you don't see is that we are doing that 3 or 4 times in addition to the 7-13 balls in our first score.

We played that way in our first match at Cass Tech and we will continue that way until we are done playing with this robot. Its the only thing we know how to do.

My ultimate alliance would be the three best robots that we competed with:

217 111 and 68.

[sdcantrell56]

I'm very happy that we are mentioned in this thread. I would personally love to play on an alliance with 217 and 67 or 68. I think that would be some incredible matches. I would love to be a part of some of that incredible strategy of the Thunderchickens.