At the competition, we were able to see how each robot performed and were able to try and tailor our strategy accordingly. Since The Pink Polka Dot Pansy can't turn, our alterring of strategy consisted of delaying our start or alterring whether we wanted to wait at the wall (block the other robots) or try and end the game. Some advantages we had were that we were fast, strong, and didn't have to go around the wall to get our block. That is what made our robot different and allowed for our victory...where everyone else (just about) had to go around the wall, to scoop blocks, we just reached over and grabbed a block for a point/ By the time they got to their blocks, we were there to block them and we were way too heavy to be moved by them.

We constructed our robot to be overly reinforced (no parts flying off, other than the ones designed to do so) and heavy enough that another robot would have to have super powers or a diesel engine to move us. We made our robot like this so we could ram other robots, but it came in quite handy when we decided to act as a wall in competition.

In competition, we looked at whether or not a robot could "hold onto" the blocks once they came around the wall to grab them. If not, we knew they had to push all the way across the board, collecting blocks as ot went, so we just left our robot at the wall to keep them from going anywhere.

If the robot looked like it was gonna grab a block or two after coming around the wall, then back up and go back to their side the way they came, then we tried to minimize waiting time and end the game, before they could get back to their side.

One troublesome robot was a little more like ours and used an arm that went over the wall and pushed blocks over to it's side. In the first round, our robot arms collided and kept either from properly functioning. In the second round, it simply lowered it's arm and blocked our robot from grabbing our block. In hindsight, we should have waited for a little while in the second round, because after blocking our arm, the other robot removed its arm and would have left us a perfect oportunity to grab our block and score a point. Luckily (for us), after retracting its arm, the other robot began to spin in circles and accidentally moved two of its own blocks, giving us the win.

In summary, in the competition we simply chose our strategy by alterring two variables. We could alter how long before we actually launched from start and we could alter how long we waited at the wall. We made our decisions after watching the opposing robot's performance in the round beforeand looking at the physical capabilities of the opposing robot.