Originally Posted by pfreivald (Post 1004610)

...in all seriousness, last year's game lent itself to 'doffensive' strategy -- controlling the middle zone meant both more points for you and ball starvation for your opponent. We used that idea in conjunction with hanging points to guarantee a win in all but one of our qualification matches at FLR (and 469 did it so much better than we even dreamed of...)

This year's game seems to be almost as clear-cut in terms of strategy as compared to last year:

"If you don't stop us, we outscore you like crazy and win a bazillion to nothing. If you do stop us, then we stop you, too, and then win on the endgame anyway."

The difference is in the scoring, of course, and I think this strategy is a bit harder to implement with how the game is set up.

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery (Post 1004727)

I disagree.

Originally Posted by 340x4xLife (Post 1004737)

I don't disagree that ground pickup will be important, but I think it might be a bit overhyped. I feel like teams will "fumble" tubes near their human loader, and near their scoring rack. 2 locations where you can't get to them anyway.

The single biggest advantage to ground pickup is scoring the tubes your alliance partner fumbles in your scoring zone.