Re: Minibot Strategy & Etiquette
 

The amount of time required to align with the tower is also a factor. For an alliance with three comparable deploy/climb times, the one with the fastest alignment should be backup. If your backup can't get from where it is and deploy in about 5 seconds, you really don't have a backup.

Also, how much faith do you have in your alliance partners' self-reported minibot times? Personally, I think ours is alright, but I don't have high confidence in the accuracy of our hand-held stopwatch data. We hope to visit 2081's tower so we can report something a bit more objective.

Re: Minibot Strategy & Etiquette
 

Whenever this problem came up in Portland, we just went with whichever two robots had the most reliable deployment mechanisms, regardless of who had faster minibots, because we figured that making sure a minibot scored any points at all was the most important thing.