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Re: 50 POINTS
If you can score 50pts by yourself you will be a top 5 robot at almost every regional/district event unless you have really bad scheduling in which case you will be a first round pick.
Most people will claim they can score 50 pts or better but very few will truely succeed. My belief is that less the 70% teams will even score 20 points more than once, yet people will fixate on what is possible by the top 5% and think that the round team XXX scored 80 points is reasonable or normal as they do every year.
What we always look at is what is theoretically possible, but the reality for most teams is far lower because it is hard to aim a shooter and many teams will have little if any stick time on their robots before their first/only regional so the driving will be a lower quality than the later events.
In their minds people always think of the elimination matches at later regionals/districts or the championship where many teams are on their second or third event and the caliber of play is far better, but your average qualification match is generally low scoring and pretty aweful to watch.
I would set the over under of the average robot at 15.5 points this year.
That said just climbing and dumping to get 50pts is not a Championship winning strategy. It will probably work at a week 1 or 2 regional at most but the strategy has too many flaws particullary if that is how you play every match.
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