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Re: Real-time balancing strategy

422 has a lower OPR than it could have gotten simply because we played to win. We would scout out an alliance, and most of the time we could take our hybrid score, single balance the bridge, and win. The only times it didn't work was the first match, where I didn't give my driver enough time, and in two matches where we were left stranded on the co-op bridge while the other team took their bridge for the win.

We won a lot of matches because teams got greedy, or weren't paying attention. Two of our wins came from unnecessary double balances on the opponents' bridge that ultimately failed to score a single balance.