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Originally Posted by IndySam
I'm really not talking about 10 point hangers but real climbers.
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I agree that hangers and climbers are completely different animals. Hangers won't go away. By the end of the season, they will probably all look and function alike - kind of like the way minibots developed in 2011.
As for the "true" climbers, I think their fate depends on how the full court shooting game develops. If shooters work out effective counterdefense, then the 30 point climbers won't be so valuable and some may be removed and replaced by better shooters. If shooting is mostly done from near the pyramid area, then climbers will remain more valuable.
A 30 point climb without a 20 point dump - especially if it takes half the match - is probably not worth the effort and risk (especially compared to quick scoring bot with a quick 10 point hanger). Even with the dump, it may not be a game changer.
Now, if there are enough full court shooters that they effectively cancel each other out, then a climber may provide just the margin needed to decide the match. Especially if the climber can play clean-up to the full court shooter for the first half of the match.
I hope that climbers remain valuable. Partly because we built one, and partly because a series of attrition matches between undefendable full court shooters could get rather boring.