Great Plays of 2009

[AlexD744]

I think it was Buckeye finals #1 where 2 robots pinned another during autonomous in it's starting position. The human player scored and got a 20 point lead going into teleoperated.

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by jgannon

It wasn't a game-changing play, but a human player at Buckeye launched a moon rock half the length of the field right at the buzzer, and managed to land it perfectly on top of the vision target on the opponent's trailer. It was pretty exciting one-in-a-million occurrence.

I saw the field manager take a cell phone pic of that moon rock on the trailer before taking it down. that was cool!

[Swttrt224]

Originally Posted by Joe_Widen

I've got a couple

1114 won a match with 2 partners that weren't moving. They scored a full hopper of balls with 20 seconds left to seal the deal


2022's human player launched a 40ft supercell into a pile of robots and had it land in 1625's trailer with 2 seconds left in the game, in semifinals.

THERE WERE MANY GREAT PLAYS AT THE MWR, but the following are my favorites:


1114's match was great.

2022's human player made MANY game saving plays. She definitely scored about 5 super cells just during elimination matches. And if I can say that all 3 semi-finals matches of 2022, 271, 2781 vs 1625, 111, 1675 were amazing on both alliances!

In those semi finals matches, 2022 and 2781 were both able to push around both Wildstang and Winnovation. 2022 is only using 1 Cim to power all 4 wheels, while Wildstang has 4 Cims AND traction control.

I also have to say that the qualifying match 63 was great because team 2022 just pushed around 1024 for the second half of the match. It was hilarious to watch!

-Caitlin
Team IRS 2022

[Travis Hoffman]

In the Buckeye elims, 1038 and 1787 proceeded to pin an opponent against the wall and then subsequently push them toward their corner payload specialist. The combination of 2 robots and 1 PS proceeded to completely fill up the captured robot's trailer.

I look forward to seeing an increase in this form of teamwork at future events.

[GBilletdeaux930]

1675 beating the undeafeated 1114 in the last qualifying match, twice!

1675 pinned 1114 in the corner the whole match and ended up winning. But then they replayed the match because one of the winning teams alliance partners was never enabled. So they replayed, and they did it again!

I think that is what killed 1114. Before those matches they were unstoppable. Then 1675 showed the rest of the competition that they could be stopped. So they were stopped in the quarterfinals too. Ended up #1 seed losing to #8 seed. Great matches.

[TotalChaos]

Originally Posted by GBilletdeaux930

1675 beating the undeafeated 1114 in the last qualifying match, twice!

1675 pinned 1114 in the corner the whole match and ended up winning. But then they replayed the match because one of the winning teams alliance partners was never enabled. So they replayed, and they did it again!

I think that is what killed 1114. Before those matches they were unstoppable. Then 1675 showed the rest of the competition that they could be stopped. So they were stopped in the quarterfinals too. Ended up #1 seed losing to #8 seed. Great matches.

The first match 68 was a very interesting one... And great for me to see before our regional as a driver! It's a excellent example of what to do/avoid depending on if you're playing offense or defense.

I'm working on getting the Midwest video I have on TBA, but since 68 was redone and the score of the second match was the one counted I don't think TBA will have a link to the original, so if you want you can watch it here:
http://www.polytechfusion.com/Midwest_Q_68_bad.wmv

- Austin

[XaulZan11]

Originally Posted by GBilletdeaux930

I think that is what killed 1114. Before those matches they were unstoppable. Then 1675 showed the rest of the competition that they could be stopped. So they were stopped in the quarterfinals too. Ended up #1 seed losing to #8 seed. Great matches.

Actually, on Thursday, we (1732) were able to slow down 1114 pretty well. Instead of scoring on 'robotless trailors', our aggressive driver decided to try to score on 1114 and in the process held them to one dump in the two practices matches. While it was only practice, it gave us hope that we could slow them down in the quarterfinals. 1675 was the first to pin them in 'real matches' (if I recall correctly) and probably did a better job than we did.

Anway, thanks for the praise, I'll be sure to pass it along to our drivers. We are just lucky it was a best of 3 (I doubt we could beat them again) and got to 1114 early in the season. Knowing 1114's dedication, I'm sure they are doing everything to get better; there is no way I would want to play them again this season.

[rsisk]

Semi finals and the Finals at San Diego. Check out the defensive play of team 2543. They had the entire arena on their feet as they held 968 pinned to the wall and prevented them from being able to dump. 968 dominated the whole regional.... that is until the met 2543. It was awesome

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by rsisk

Semi finals and the Finals at San Diego. Check out the defensive play of team 2543. They had the entire arena on their feet as they held 968 pinned to the wall and prevented them from being able to dump. 968 dominated the whole regional.... that is until the met 2543. It was awesome

I think the common term a bunch of us used was "968 got 1114'd at San Diego"

It was sick strategy. No offense to them, but 968's partners (IMHO) were not helping out RAWC as much as they should've. Don't get me wrong, they were darn good robots.

[Viper37]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

It was sick strategy. No offense to them, but 968's partners (IMHO) were not helping out RAWC as much as they should've. Don't get me wrong, they were darn good robots.

There really isn't much that can be done when wide robots pin long ones. It was a tactic that really gained popularity at this regional.

Wide robots would use the bumpers to their advantage and pin robots between the kingpin and the trailer. Teams were able to "pin" robots without using the walls, even in the middle of the field. This strategy was demonstrated perfectly by 2543 during the Finals when they pushed the Holy Cow's halfway across the field, sideways, into the drivers station wall. 2543 had quite a machine, as they were able to maintain this pin on more than one team over the course of the regional, for extended periods.

We gave it our best effort to free our Alliance partner, but despite our best efforts, there really was nothing we could do to free 968.

In my opinion, 2543's choice early on to use their robot's low center of gravity and power ramping system to pin other robots, was a brilliant tactical decision. My hat is off to you guys.

[rsisk]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

I think the common term a bunch of us used was "968 got 1114'd at San Diego"

It was sick strategy. No offense to them, but 968's partners (IMHO) were not helping out RAWC as much as they should've. Don't get me wrong, they were darn good robots.

1622 Spyder was doing their best to push 2543 off of 968, but then the two best offense components of the alliance are basically out of the competition because of the one pinning robot.

[JewishDan18]

I enjoyed it in match #49 of the Granite State regional when 20 and 175 hit 2370's trailer from both sides and simultaneously dumped, filling it almost instantly.

[coldfusion1279]

Originally Posted by NorviewsVeteran

The other alliance could have thrown a super cell, missed, been collected by 118, and all 3 were made in.

But thats just a guess.

So our alliance (1279, 118, and 538) had a pretty dynamic alliance. 118 was our empty cell runner. I don't remember the specific match but it it was usually a tandem of our human player and the human player from 538 (I think) that made the critical super cell shots.

In one match, 1279's human player made 2 super cells, and our other human player made 1. That was really exciting.

KUDOS to our human players, because without them, the matches would have been a lot closer.

[Joe_Widen]

1732 did an awesome job shutting down 1114/71 too when they played defense on them in the quarter finals. Didn't it get to the point where 1000 ended up playing defense on the defense(1732) to try and free up 71 or 1114?

[Tetraman]

Originally Posted by Joe_Widen

1732 did an awesome job shutting down 1114/71 too when they played defense on them in the quarter finals. Didn't it get to the point where 1000 ended up playing defense on the defense(1732) to try and free up 71 or 1114?

I agree. A lot of people are going on about the underdogs beating the top ranks... but I think what is more memorable about that match was the defense and the active movements the robots made. They didn't pull any "run-away" defense, they went head-on, and forced 71 and 1114 to make offensive maneuvers which 1732 and the others on that alliance would take advantage of.