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Re: Best Fender shooters

Although I think this is intended to be mostly about MSC/MAR robots, I've seen several others mentioned here, and I am floored we are 3 pages in without someone mentioning 2168. They were #1 seed at BOTH NYC and CT, and incredibly fast and impressive at fender shooting. They were fairly impervious to defense, as they were capable of shooting from the key, but preferred the fender. I'm sad we won't see how they stack up to CMP teams, but perhaps we'll see some good competition at offseasons this year

In general, I think the only-fender robots are going to have a tough time at champs. I have to admit, strategy-wise, I would much rather be against an only-fender robot than with one in eliminations. I think regionals didn't really prove that as many regionals were not more than 10 robots deep when it came to robots able to score 2+ balls in tele, so a very good fender had a chance of scooting around so-so defense. I don't think that will be the case in Champs. With 100-robots deep in each field, my guess is smart teams who know they cannot score with-in the top 15 robots in hybrid/tele will be trying to show off their defensive skills, and its much more likely that fender robots will see a lot more defense in Quals than they have ever seen in the past.

The more I think about it, the more this game intrigues me... how different Quals vs Elims at Regionals has been, and then how different Regionals vs Champs will be... Its almost like you had to design a robot that was good at 3 different games to stack up in the top tier.
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