Aw, crap. Y’all realize what this means, right?
The Thunder Chickens have developed a 12V cloaking technology! :ahh:
Try looking on the FIRST website. They have been doing pretty good of updating the matches. No videos though.
I was only responding to a comment that was essentially “118 is amazing, they scored XX tubes a match with no partners”. I think it is easier for a robot to score with no other robot in their scoring zone. It was not a knock on 118, just a reminder about context.
Does anyone know what happened in the last match at Lone Star yesterday?
118 only putting up 9 points??
I think for TBA to grab the matches greg has to manually run a script. I think TBA is meant to be an after competition resource.
Teams who I have been really really happy to see doing well today - 1323, 1771, 2415, 2395, 1477, 714 and 125.
Expect hardware and blue banners from these guys today! 
217 really impressed me today while watching them. They are a really solid team again this year. They also showcased some interesting strategies and some very impressive human player action.
Heavy defense by the blue alliance. 118 had no help. All three blue robots were pounding on them, and kept them from getting to the pole.
Strategies such as???
In Boilermaker this weekend 234 played a lot better than they did at Wisconsin including a new and improved sub two second minibot+deployment. We (2081) were able to alliance with them and sweep through the eliminations.
They showcased a tube hoarding stratigy where they would place as may tubes in their safe zone as possible without even trying to score them (trusting their partner to score for them.) The result was overall lower scores for both alliances.
So they fetched tubes for their partners to score? Am I misunderstanding something?
You are not misunderstanding anything. That is all we did. We just acted as a feeder for our alliance partner. No big deal.
Makes great sense…if you are mobile and acquire tubes off floor, or from feeder faster than your partner who can also place tubes efficiently…why not? You do what’s best for the alliance, right?
Considering their alliance scored over 110 points EVERY round in the eliminations at the Detroit regional, I think it only lowered the scores for their opposing alliance. This is one of the best defensive/offensive strategies - reduce the number of tubes available for your opponents to score, and increase the number your team can score.
Basically, in the SF and Finals at Detroit we were going against alliances with defensive beasts (440 in the SF and 2832 in the Finals) and knew they would try to cut off 51 from getting back to our scoring zone. 51 has a high maneuverable slide drive and can go around defense, but can’t really push through it. We have a 6WD with 6 motors using IFI traction wheels and can push through most teams so we felt it was better to keep 51 scoring and have 3096 and us get all of the tubes.
This is a strategy that only works in certain situations and worked well for us in a couple of instances. It requires a lot of faith in your partners and constant communication between the drive coaches.
A big part of the credit for this successful strategy goes to the three drive coaches on our alliance; Tito, Josh, and my brother Mike but that is for another thread.
Because 217 had a partner that was fast at scoring, it wasn’t less efficient to have an excellent scorer such as themselves just moving tubes. However, by getting the tubes out of open play quickly, they limited their opponents’ tubes, and thus their scoring. I have to assume this was combined with strictly limited HP throwing from the DT Champion alliance. Excellent strategy!
217… the only team to my knowledge with 2 banners 
294 and 177 both have 2 world championship banners to their name. I know there are more, but I’m drawing a blank right now unfortunately.
I meant for 2011.
Given its only week 3…
I hope they get the hat trick at Troy