Thread: 3-team offense
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Re: 3-team offense

Once you get into the scoring zone there isn't a whole lot of room to move around with three robots, it is ultimately more efficient to have two scoring and the third doing something else productive such as playing defense or herding tubes closer to the scorers. That being said I see room for a change in strategy when we get to Championships where almost all alliances will be able to score efficiently from the floor. When it gets to elimination rounds it has already been demonstrated that top teams may resort to lane feeding. If this situation arises a third scorer may fit into the cycle between feeding and scoring allowing it to be a more efficient strategy than it currently is. I still think that most alliances will be composed of two scorers and one defensive bot.
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