The Sauce

The Sauce

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• Potential Directions for the 2022 High-tier Metagame
• Teleop
• Messing with Opponent Cargo
• Autonomous
• 6 Ball Auto
• Hueneme Port Auto Strategy
• Interacting with Cargo Across the Midline
• 118 Billiards Clip – G403 – G210
• Endgame
• Triple Traversal
• Climber Defense/Climber Chicken – Really Fast Climbs at the End
• Project: Overtime

Teleop

• How to be elite at RRPBTBC
• Quick Release Time
• Field awareness
• Driver Finesse
• Messing with Opponent Cargo
• Places to put the Cargo
• The Fender
• Your Hangar - keep G404 in mind -
• Their Alliance Station Wall
• The Terminal
• Generally messing with opponent Cargo

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Autonomous

• We’ve seen 5 and 6 ball autos
• So what are the other robots going to do in auto?
• What’s next?

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• Putting Opponent Cargo in inconvenient places
• 1678 - Finals 2 - Hueneme Port - into your Hangar
• 4003 - Finals 3 - St. Joseph - into their far side fender
• into the same places mentioned in the Teleop portion

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• Momentary Control of 3 or more Cargo

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Autonomous

• Opponent Cargo on your side
• 3 cargo to displace*
• Putting Opponent Cargo in odd places

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*foreshadowing

2 + 2 Hangar

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B6 + B7

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2 + 2 Fender

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5 + 1 Hangar

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5 + 1 Fender

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B6 + B7

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Autonomous

• Momentary Control of 3 or more Cargo
• 1771 - Qual 26 - PCH Dalton Event
• Egregious assumes violation, and that is not the case

5 + 1 Fender

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O1

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B6 + B7

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“Crossing the Line”: Cargo

• In week 2, we showed this on Chief Delphi
• Denies 4 points, may score you 4 points, - same value - 8 point differential
• Snipe and replace
• Replace theirs with yours
• +4 because you deny them a score
• +4 because they score it for you
• -4 because you aren’t scoring it yourself (given that you can score it)
• unless you can’t score it which it’s -2 or 0
• Snipe
• hit their cargo with one of their cargo, but fast enough so that both go flying away
• + 4 because you deny them a score
• but the cost is now picking up the cargo of not your color in auto

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1 Snipe + 2

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“Crossing the Line”: Cargo

• You need to snipe early or else they will have already finished their auto path.
• It’s really hard to get this “sniping” accurate
• +4 either way if done successfully

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• The Field Bump Exists, but only on one side, this means that it’s much harder to do

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• The Field Bump only exists on one side

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B6 + B7

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“Crossing the Line”: ROBOTS

• G210

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• You very much can cross the line, you just can’t contact anything
• OR CAN YOU??!???!
• The ROBOT can not contact but CARGO very much can — link
• One you nudge Ball, you probably end up picking both of them up
• Works Better if you have an internal way to sort out wrong Cargo: 3847 - 1678
• Every Additional Ball is +4
• Scoring one additional Ball is always better than placing one of their balls on your side somewhere weird

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3 Ball w/ Steal

• You can steal on the other side

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8 Ball Auto

• This one is kinda crazy

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O1

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B6 + B7

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Rock, Paper, Scissors

• If you try to steal, and your opponent is physically, there, you get a -8 tech foul
• So if you know someone is doing the steal, you can put your robot there and mess up their whole path and get a tech foul
• This tech foul is not a penalty on you for “making an opponent violate a rule”
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Steal Defense

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Steal Counter

5 Ball

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Steal Defense

• If you steal early and the opponent tries stealing late, you counter them

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Teleop Alliance Strategies

• 2 Offense - 1 Defense who holds 2 Opponent Cargo all match
• Shot Blockers seem valuable
• Wall with Overhang at Max Height

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• Placing positional defense 2014 style
• Both Robot Defense and Cargo “Defense”

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• The Real “Offensively Defensive” Strategy
• 3 Turret Swerve Robots with Blockers that hold 2 opponent cargo each and use G403
• I don’t think this will be too viable, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
• Winning is not scoring a lot of points, it’s scoring more than your opponent, i.e. creating a differential, defense is a way to do that

We’re in the Endgame™ now

• Triple Traversal
• They’re not all next to each other
• just climb on top of each other
• Scoring Cargo until late and doing a fast mid/high climb
• Going back at 30 seconds to traversal is worse
• At Champs, we think at least 1 Alliance Captain/ First Pick will come back late
• Fast Climbs are good
• Climber Defense (Climber Chicken)
• The idea with Chicken is who can wait the longest while still getting back to do some climb
• You and opponent both not climbing is a wash, both climbing is wash,

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Project: Overtime

• Q134 says extension after match is not penalizable
• The way scoring works is that Climbs are scored 5 seconds after the match ends

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Project: Overtime

• Read the bottom of the chief post to learn how the climb
• Robots needs to be moving
• but you can’t be extended
• It uses some form of passive post match climb
• Needs a way to release at/ before t=0, reach up, and pull up
• We use NEOs, but could be some other mechanical solution