[BrendanB]

We had a few matches with such a predicament. In two of those our opponents were really tough so we knew we had to get 1-2 so I went by who had the fastest inlcluding deployment as well as going by how many times it has gone up or failed. We then would tell the third robot to stay on guard as a backup deploy which was needed a few times with minibots coming loose or robots dying. In situations where we seemed to have an easier win if everything went well I would keep the strongest tube man on the rack for the entire game while the other two were on the poles. I used this also when times were really close and reliability was close too.

It is tedious in some cases but it requires a lot of patience and respect for your partners when figuring out who gets the towers.