Pre season competition alliance
 

After seeing a ton of bots, what alliance do u think will win week 1. My bet: 1 turret and 2 dumpers.

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2 dumpers and 1 box on wheels with the capability to hold most if not all the balls...

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Either

1.)Power dumper
2.)Power dumper
3.)Collector/Empty Cell specialist/Defensive Specialist

or

1.)Shooter
2.)Power dumper
3.)Collector/Empty Cell specialist/Defensive Specialist

Now this is what I think will be good for regionals, championship is a whole different story.

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its gonna be three dumpers, or two shooters and a dumper:D

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two shooters and a dumper at champ maybe but no way in week one will shooters be powerful enough to have 2 of them on an alliance...

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2 dumpers and 1 shooter.
1 will have a propeller.
all 3 will pick up from the floor.

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2 Shooters/Dumpers, doesn't really matter
1 Bot that plays well with others

We're only talking about week 1 here

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My idea of a perfect alliance for regionals would be two amazing scorers. This can be a combination of dumper and shooter or two shooters or two dumpers. I believe the strongest alliance would have one shooter and one dumper, both able to fill a goal in one go. The third robot just needs to have excellent drivers, nothing else. With lower amounts of scoring talent at regionals, alliance captains should carefully consider better drivers for a third robot rather than another scoring machine. Scoring capabilities for the third robot would be nice, but I don't think we will see that sort of alliance until Champs. The third robot would be used for strategic pinning and would protect the scorers of the alliances trailers while they are scoring. This is my prediction for the perfect regional alliance. It will be interesting to see the different strategies that develop along the way and how different types of robots will be used.

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As far as standard regionals go, I think you have:

1 good shooter
1 good dumper
1 average ball manipulator with a good PS/ good drivetrain

I agree with the prop assesment (I would though, because we have a prop)

And I think that one of the final alliances on Einstein will be:

Super power dumper
Super shooter
Decent ball manipulator with a prop that can just bulldoze through people

We'll see

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I don't think that 1 will have a prop just because I don't see lots of teams using a propeller. I agree that they will pick up from the the floor though, for now at least...

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The alliance with 3 good members aka the 3-5 alliances.

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Team #'s:
148, 85, 107

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It's up to you guys to determine what I mean. :P

For week one:
1. Alexander Ovechkin
2. Mike Green
3. Sean Avery (Donald Brashear or Claude Lemieux also work) with a good human player.

Alternate alliance:
1. Pavel Datsyuk (Henrik Zetterberg if unavailable)
2. Zach Parise
3. Mark Streit

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i think two shooter bots and one defense/runner to run around and toy with the other hot shooters for the other alliance.

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We really like 85 and 107, but don't think a week 1 victory is in the cards for us.