DEWBOT VI IRI Matches
From DEW Robotics
Friday
- Match 7
- 1640, 48, and 1732 lost a very close and hard fought match to 45, 294, and 51. We could have been more helpful (the kicker was rather anemic), but it was a great showing against international champions 294!
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Clem
- Match 15
- 1640, 148, and 1114 beat 1714, 118, and 1718 15 to 11--talk about seeding points! (We ranked 7th at one point today, Friday.) An excellent match with an excellent alliance against another fine triad: this is what IRI is all about!
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Clem
- Match 32
- 1640, 359, and 573 cleaned up an a fantastic 10 to 5 match against 171, 141, and 1592. We did excellently in this match: a virtual shut-out (one ball scored on us) of not one but two robots in their home zone. This impressed people. Well done, drive team! Also, great adaption the kicker being jammed: on-the-spot change in defensive strategy from block & clear to just block--very effectively. We couldn't get over the bump with the kicker stuck, but easily cleared the tunnel.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
- Match 40
- 1640, 2826, and 1675 beat 1058, 135, and 1038 in a close 10 to 8. Again, we played excellent defense, often with 3 robots attempting to score on us, 1058 very reliably from the mid zone. Wonderful drive team coordination--we know what's going on on the field, and we know how to deal with it.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
- Match 57
- We really are a tri-zone robot. We pretty much finished proving that is this match, when 1640, 2062, and 1625 shut down 1902, 1646, and 116 by 15 to 4. Now that's a score! A good deal (I lost track myself - Siri) of those were ours from the home zone. The kicker's still anemic, but that's ok from the home zone, and we're back to controlling it by and large. To round it off, some fantastic on-the-spot alliance communication allowed us to set a pick on our defender, pinning them (legally) against the wall so 1625 could score in our other goal.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
- Match 67
- Well, you can't win 'em all--especially when you're playing against international champions Team 67. 1640, 503, and 1529 lost a bitter 2 to 12 against 67, 888, and 70. On the bright side, we scored all the alliance goals that match--all three. On the more aphotic side, we also scored the penalty. As impressive as our new possessor is, the Lo Bar has taken quite a beating--we managed to push it down so far that we ate a ball. Rough match all around--we flickered in and out of communication so quickly and repeatedly that the wheels appeared to return to Medieval Europe for St. Vitus' Dance. We've really got to fix the Classmate problem.
- Drive Team: Carly, Sasha, Andrew, Siri
Saturday
- Match 83
- Now that's driving! 1640 helped 1538, and 343 to pull out a 13 to 8 victory over 980, 829, and 2194 without our Hi/Lo possessor. After we ate our first ball and got a rough look from a referee, I called off use of the possessor. Later testing on the practice field could not mimic the circumstances or explain why we ate it, though we did so again in our next match. Right choice or not, Carly and Sasha both took it in strike without complaint. We still managed to score probably at least half a dozen balls via herding and non-possessor kicking from the near zone. We've really got to sort this out, but at least we can could handle it in the near term. Very few teams strike well without a functioning possessor (granted, most have a functioning possessor). Still, this is good to know. Well done team!
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