1549's stratagy...

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Greetings from GLR!!!!!

The regional was amazing this year, team 1549 had a VERY interesting experience and I thought it was worth sharing.

On practice day we very quickly realized that there was no way we cold score in the center goal, period. We had to totally rethink our stratagy. With an air of defeat we decided to go 100% defense. Our halftrack drivetrain made the robot very apt to this (that is, snowblower tracks in the back with casters in the front). On Friday we won all but one of our matches. 'It was coincidence' i thought, we wernt that good. Must have been the alliance. Come Saturday we start winning again, even with poor alliances and I begin to study the matches and the scorebord. While most matches ended up having scores of 40+ to 60+ our matches had scores of 10+ to 30-50+. We were winning everything and never scoring apart from a few one pointers in autonomus using our impotent shooter.

Next thing i know all the matches are over and its time for alliance picks in finals. We were #4!!! Needness to say the entire team was stunned and joyous. We picked team 66 and 68 for finals-both good shooters. The first round we won both matches with a scores of 19-58 and 15-54. The vast majority of the points scored against us were scored in autonomous mode! We simply parked in front of the center goal and didnt let anyone line up a shot! Well, in the semifinals equipment finals and worthy advisaries knocked us out of eliminations.

We took on a stratagy that noone else was using, all defense. Noone was prepared to deal with us. Remember, a defense wins the game. Think about how many shots you can stop vs how many you can make. It worked for us!

Oh yea, props to 66 and 68, we were a great team.