Re: Last call for bold predictions before competition begins!
 

Definitely during eliminations. People are forgetting that breaches and captures are worth straight points during elimination rounds.

As scouting time increases we will see more overall points but less ranking points

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At the majority of events, the #1 seed will not be the team with the best W-L-T record.

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Captures will be rare. Most teams will breach, and the one with a better auto and better scoring will win. General RP score will be 3-1.

High goals will be rare, and low goals will be more common.

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For the first few weeks of competition, high goals will be significantly more common than low goals.

Both towers would be discarded in up to 5% of the games, including elims, until the districts champs and the championship...

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From what I have seen, defence is a pretty difficult position to play. Although, Team 1793's method was both annoying and effective... Essentially they just backed their robot up and bumped it repeatedly into the opposing shooter. It was rather hilarious to watch, as the bumps were not even remotely malicious, just rather annoying and just enough to throw off the aim of the shot. I described it as the robot going "*bump* hey *bump* hey *bump* Over here *bump* Pay attention to me *bump* LOOK AT ME, I'M ADORABLE"

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Honestly, in the short time we needed to play defense, 1076 had no problem shutting down an entire alliance from scoring boulders. Zero boulders were scored (across 2 matches) when we were in the defensive area. We just stayed between the tower and whatever robot was coming up trying to score. They'd shoot and miss, or give up on the tower, and we'd turn our attention to the next robot up.

A more coordinated alliance would send 2 robots in at a time, but still, cancelling a team's top robot is quite impactful. In fact, if there is a qualifying match where we are up against a completely stacked alliance, I might just go play defense on them to show the opposing teams what we are capable of, instead of giving up on the 2 win rank points and trying to attempt the tower rank point.

Re: Last call for bold predictions before competition begins!
 

The tower will have 25 balls scored in the high goal during one match. Almost happened at the NE District Championship. Only 2 high goal bots shooting and one defense bot on winning alliance. Not a 1 seed.

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Why?

Re: Last call for bold predictions before competition begins!
 

#LastWORLDChampions

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A 3-8 seed will win Einstein

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OP Robotics will be 4th seed alliance captain in their division and will win Einstein after an intense division finals.

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Just saw the division assignments and my gut is telling me that 1678 will have a repeat Einstein win with 971. I'm still holding out for 2056 winning their first World Championship.

EDIT: Wrote logic, meant gut. Logic says whoever comes out of the stacked Newton division will win Einstein.

Re: Last call for bold predictions before competition begins!
 

Want to have it both ways...

Can't :(

I personally was hoping to be in the same division as 2056 so we could try our best to win with them, not against them.