Abandoning Floor Loading

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by GaryVoshol

Not a fair comparison; in 2007 half the pieces started on the floor, lined up along the diamond-plate.

But even these tubes were rarely touched. Granted, if the throwing option wasn't available, I suppose some teams would've knocked these tubes flat and then picked them up.

My team is going for the floor load. We figure that things are going to be very '07ish. The best teams are going to want their drivers to have tubes available, and IMO that means getting a tall human player with one heck of an arm.

- Sunny

[EricH]

Originally Posted by ttldomination

But even these tubes were rarely touched. Granted, if the throwing option wasn't available, I suppose some teams would've knocked these tubes flat and then picked them up.

That's what 330 did. Strategic move, too--it's a lot harder to deploy ramps when there's a tube right there that you have to avoid, thanks to some scoring robot knocking half of them down while trying to acquire a tube.

[JesseK]

Originally Posted by EricH

That's what 330 did. Strategic move, too--it's a lot harder to deploy ramps when there's a tube right there that you have to avoid, thanks to some scoring robot knocking half of them down while trying to acquire a tube.

Every one of our first 2007 qualification rounds where we couldn't do anything but defense & ramps I told the kids "go mess up their home zone". It worked too.

[JesseK]

We're designing the mechanism to do both since we think we've found a fairly elegant solution for both -- the team was split either way. We want the capability for both since stealing the opposition's tube from the floor significantly increases immediate gains in score differential compared to not even having the capability to pick up from the floor.

However, doing both isn't essential to our overall strategy. Doing one or the other IS essential.