Team 900's Secret Sauce

FIRST General Forum
#61

Not sure why people keep wailing on the strategy.

It is obviously extremely situational, But with a good drive-train, good driving, and proper execution it could turn the tide of a match. That’s what strategy is for, taking all the aspects of your situation and using them for your own alliance’s benefit. If that requires a strategy used seldom and used only in a few situation, then I say go for it. If it works, it works. It might not work always, but it will work in the proper situation.

Never count out a strategy until you look at all the facts first.

#62

It would be a fair statement to say that there are several robots against whom this could work as they alone could not push you, however if two of those robots teamed up I would bet they could push you straight sideways right through their null zone while you incur all the penalty points and can not get out because they have you in a t-bone pin. If I was a drive coach and saw a team try to implement this strategy I would tell my drivers and another team on the alliance to grab a cube and go after you. You also have to be careful not to get pushed into the scale as that is a secondary penalty (depending on how the ref reads the rule about robots being forced into penalties)

At SMR we saw a team try to play defense around the opposing null zone and they wound up getting over 200 points in penalties iirc. We promptly listed them as “STAY AWAY!” on our scouting notes.

#63

I admit my post was not nice, well thought out, or appropriate. I apologize.

#64