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Re: 2012 Greater Toronto Regional West
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Originally Posted by PayneTrain View Post
It's a pure numbers play. 1114 knows from Waterloo that you cna just shove basket points down the other alliances' throats and they can't recover. Two of the highest global OPRs on the same team must be unstoppable, even against wellcoordinated defense.
3161 and 3683 last week were on the same alliance (combined alliance OPR: 57, compared to 1114/2056 with 63), and were taken out by the #6 alliance (combined alliance OPR: 20ish) in the quarterfinals. Despite me being the OPRNet maintainer, I gotta say OPR isn't everything.

If the opposition sends a defenderbot to fiddle with ball pickup and get in 3161's way, then the #1 alliance will probably be down to just 1114 scoring. If the defender bot then manages to impede them from bridging, it could be 2 bots to 1 balanced (this strategy is what happened in waterloo quarterfinals last week).

These eliminations are going to be sooo good. I'm hoping for 1114 vs 2056 in the finals, that'd be epic. 2056 will have a tough battle getting through 188 though.