Xenon is correct. My partner nearly choked. A little of that is on me with that green cube I left on the edge of the protected zone after auton. In retrospect I should’ve pulled that out.
It was my auton that won us the match score-wise. But strat-wise it was the wallbot.
You can be in the outer protected zone, but not the inner. I was warned when I got close (the ref had no idea what was coming).
We got a lot of compliments on that maneuver. But it’s a rare and very specific occurrence that we’ll do it. We can’t risk breaking the robot with repeated strain (though it can handle it, we’d rather not risk it), and even after just the once in elims it’s an anticipated move. It worked because it was a surprise. In finals they guarded their protected zone well.
As they should. The best thing to do in a competition, no matter the scale, is to be able to know what the opposing bots can do. When you pulled a fast one on your opponents by doing something completely different from they had previously seen you do, you made them have to adapt on the spot. It also sends a message to everyone who watched it and made them also have to change their strategy to make sure you can’t do it again. Good on you for thinking outside of the box with that strategy.
And on that note I’ll pull an unpopular opinion out of the woodworks: I’ve grown to appreciate BO1 because it allows for “fast ones” like this. While it does get super annoying in flukes, it is a lot of fun to play with strategically.
Though I’m sure my opponents (who, once again, should’ve dominated that match in all respects) were lamenting BO1 after that match.
Well, who wouldn’t? You did something no one expected your bot could do and because of it, caused the opposing alliance to lose when the match was pretty much theirs. Of course they would lament that you did something like that and benefited so much from it.
The entire competition isn’t just building and programming a robot. VEX is also about improving and being creative with your ideas and strategy. What you did is what every other team does whether they realize it or not. Best thing to do is to change your strategy to fit the robots you are against. Also, I completely agree with how much fun it is to play strategically.
Pretty spicy robot:grinning:
Our teams had a 2 DR4B but never thought of this amazing strategy
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