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Originally Posted by Zebra_Fact_Man
If I may be so bold to predict (and pardon any repetition from a previous post for completion's sake) the following:
for a district/regional/championship winning alliance, it will be critical to have all of the following in your alliance:
1 cross-court shooter (that empties the feeder station)
1 robot able to pick up rebounds (clears the floor)
1 utility robot to play defense on the other alliance AND/OR protect their 2 scoring robots
At least 1 of these 3 robots must be a 30pt climber/5pt disc dumper.
There are many strategies to play this year's game, but I just cant see any other system that would be more efficient, systematic, organized, and/or potent.
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How many cross court shooters do you think are tuned and can accurately make that shot? I personally wouldn't trust many of the attempted ones. Maybe I'm biased because my team has no cross-court capability, but I'd rather pick a feeder-slot loaded robot that is able to consistently do 4 sprints from being fed to scoring. If it was 118 doing the cross court shooting, my opinions would change, but unless I see some really good accuracy and the ability to avoid defence while doing the cross court shot, I will prefer a feeder loaded robot that can sprint and score.
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Originally Posted by EricLeifermann
I don't agree. There are feeder stations on both sides of the field. If there are 2 full court shooters on an alliance put them on each side of the field and have the other alliance chose who to try and stop.
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If you put two robots on playing defence, it won't take long for the alliance with the two cross court shooters to realize their strategy isn't working. In that case, those cross court shooters better be prepared to turn down their shooters and become sprinters from the feeder stations to the pyramid for their regular 3 point shots. I don't think we can definitively tell if an alliance with a cross court shooter will be superior to any other alliance at this point just from week 0 footage and reveal videos. Competition changes as strategies become unearthed and developed.