When are you placing your spoilers? (Poll)

[astephen68]

When do you think you will bring out your ringer?

[TravisE]

at the last 30 seconds because that gives the other allience less time to move it especially if the are yousing ramps ecause the ramps will slow them down

[Ian S.]

The last 30 seconds would make the most sense because most of the ringers if any will be on the rack by then, and you can find the best place to cancel out a row/column and also a good percentage of teams will be rushing to their home zone by then, so why not?

[BobBoJanglez]

Anytime during the game we will use the spoilers our bot is offense and defense. If you have a row of 8 then you might not want to bring spoilers out at all because some bots should be able to take spoilers off of there scores and put it on to youre's ruining your row.

[Ericgehrken]

Why not place them at the end when everyone else is trying to race to the homezone and lift or be lifted? Then it's an open field.

[astephen68]

Some teams might do that also. SO maybe it could be difficult!!!!!!!

[Agent 108]

I think it's best to place the spoilers at the last 30 sec. of the game so the opposing alliance won't have a lot of time to react and get the bonus pionts.

[astephen68]

Yeah thats true.

[MattLi]

I don't think the spoilers will see much action until the last minute-30 seconds. Placing a spoiler at any time before that mark just wouldn't be the best idea. When you have a lot of time the best thing to do is to get (your color) ringers onto the spiderlegs. This way by the end of the game you have a lot of spider legs "controled." The spoilers can always be taken off so I suspect that spoiler playing is going to be reserved for endgame.

[astephen68]

I think they might come out during the middle espically the teams who are trying to get the extra 15-30 points at the end!

[Agent 108]

That's true, but if you put out the spoilers at the end and ruin their chance of getting high scores, to react they would have to drop others off, losing valueable points, while we're stacking up to get bonus points!

[J23t]

im not entirely sure what we are doing, but i think that we plan on placing ringers in the ending half of the match

[astephen68]

Originally Posted by J23t

im not entirely sure what we are doing, but i think that we plan on placing ringers in the ending half of the match

Ringers at the end. That doesn't make sense though because how are you going to score at hte end if all the spots are taken up. You shoul d score ringers as fast as possible and then focus on moving ringers!!!!