This is how strategy goes on 1126:
Kick-off day, and the first day thereafter, we, as a team, review all the rules. We all study the rules as a group and on our own, and each individual tries to come up with something in the game we could use in a strategy.
After that, we have a specialized strategy team (Mentors AND Students) that gathers and reviews everything again. We split up the game into autonomous, teleoperated and end game, and list all the possible ways to score/what we could do in each mode, and rank them on difficulty to perform and pay-off (points earned). What we determine to be the most effective ways of scoring are what we do in competition, and then we determine what our robot has to be able to do to complete these tasks efficiently (fast vs controlled, maneuverable vs pushing) .
We then release what we determined would be best to the whole team, for questions, comments or concerns. Unless someone has a serious problem with what we decided to do, we proceed with what we determined best.
This process has generally worked well for us in the past
I hope this helps! Any questions, don't hesitate to ask!