A novel strategy: Always score for your opponents

[Grim Tuesday]

Originally Posted by pfreivald

We saw this strategy and we thought that it was very much against Gracious Professionalism, and poor gamesmanship besides. We played every game to win, no matter what...

...and we were first seed, and at the end of the day, Regional Champions. (*AND* we won the 'Cooperatition(TM) Award' to boot.)

My suggestion: just play the game. It worked for us, *and* it gives the other teams' scouts a better idea of what your robot is capable of when winning is all about who has more points at the end of a match.

The top eight teams are *so* fluid this year because of the scoring system, that scouting is that much more important -- we went from 13th to 1st in three games. Too many people seem more focused on a mathematical trick than they are on the psychology of scouting -- and IMO that is a big mistake.

Patrick

You guys were great at FLR. Loved the robot!
I think that the qual ranking system this year is FUBAR. Smart teams should just not look at it, or they will get false hope, or become depressed. We got picked as a first choice for an alliance even though we were seeded in the high 20's. The team that picked us knew that we were good, despite a bunch of lousy scoring matches.

BTW, GoW, were you the guys we played with in the match when we had 2 bots with no field connection and we scored 5 goals on our own?