NO, I'm not just reviving a dead forum

[Gui Cavalcanti]

One thing I always thought about doing that my team never let me attempt was the "playing dead" strategy. This would involve your robot moving like it was broken (maybe just one side of the drive train would be driving around, or some such), or even using the giant red emergency buttons to trigger your robot to shut off and reset (or just pressing the reset button on the robot controller).

It might not be in the spirit of FIRST, exactly, and it also wouldn't work more than once or twice, but when it would fool your opponents it would really be worth something. Of course, our robot is so battered by this point that we don't quite have to fake being slightly disabled...