My prediction?
Both are important strategies, both in quals and elims.
It's the difference between scoring a lot of points fast vs. scoring a lot of points over a longer time. If you can pick up discs in autonomous and make 5 in the high goal, which is a lot more realistic this year compared to last (balls on the bridges).
Most good shooters will be low to the ground and able to hp and floor collect, meaning that those additional white discs will be easy to get under the pyramid.
As people pointed out earlier, you can score a lot of points shooting +10pt hang.
Now consider the other strategy.
Usually by week three of the season someone has posted a video of their robot completing a game task. It is now week 4 and by my count
this is one of perhaps only a handful of videos of a robot completing the task. I'm not trying to offend anyone, I understand it is an exceedingly difficult task and a lot of teams are still perfecting their systems. Most of the other designs I have seen have not inspired me with a lot of confidence.
As I'm sure a lot of people have realized, designing a 30 pt hanging mechanism is really difficult. It's probably gonna weigh a lot and take up a lot of space. So shooting ability might be compromised.
If you do pull off climb+dump and you do it quickly, like 15~20s, and you can score in auto +18 that's 68 points
and it leaves most of the match open to focus on stopping the other alliance.
Assuming most good shooters are low to the ground and shoot at 45~30 so degrees it should be pretty easy for a tall 30pt climber to block them (especially if it has a net) without actually pushing them. Even more so if they are shooting from under the pyramid where they are protected.
It shouldn't be too hard to deny the other alliance at least 15 pts using defense. 2 out of 3 times a great shooter+10hang would probably beat a great hang+dump. But an average shooter+10hang? A great shooter+10hang vs. a hang+dump+auto?
If your team is capable of building a great shooter+30hang+auto+pickup then you probably shouldn't be stress'n bout winning
