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Originally Posted by jwfoss
I would like to pose a question: Ultimate Strategy for What?
- Ultimate Strategy to Qualify #1
- Ultimate Strategy to Get Picked
- Ultimate Strategy to Win a Regional
- Ultimate Strategy to Win Championships
- Ultimate Strategy within your team's abilities
I would strongly argue that these goals are not all the same.
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If you want to be #1, first try to predict the alliance score. Then cut at least a third off of that number because the average alliance score is always overestimated for a number of reasons. You would want to build a system that guarantees a large autonomous score to break as many ties as possible, and because it can provide almost as many points per robot as the highest hang. You also want a consistent hanging mechanism, but to 1-seed a regional it just needs to work at level one or two consistently, not three.
If you want to ensure someone picks you, build a defensive-minded drive train and spend the rest of your time working on a 30-point hang that never fails. Intelligent scouting doesn't mean that as a captain you try to find the two best robots available for your team, but the two that best complement your strategy. Those that know that will probably pick a robot like that.
The ultimate strategy to win a regional is as team specific as it is event specific. Maybe you should aim to build a #1 robot that can pick up a great #2 and ideal #24 complement. Maybe your team should try to build a dark horse robot to be a surprisingly good late pick in selection.
The ultimate strategy to win championship lives or dies by the armory of resources a team has at its disposal, so that may be out of the picture for a lot of teams. I assume that on top of satisfying requirements for the #1 robot at a regional, you should have a way to consistently deliver the colored discs to the pyramid goal and definitely go for a solid 30 point climb.