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Originally Posted by akoscielski3
This year something I found was that you don't need a defender, you can have 3 amazing offense robots together and be able to out score the other alliance.
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I like most of your post but disagree with this part enough to comment. If you're going up against a full-court shooter you better have a defensive plan; if you let it sit there you'll be able to watch the remaining elimination rounds from the stands.
Block them, disrupt them, don't let them get to the loading zone, something...but defend against them. The other alliance can use their other two bots to slow down your shooters' load/shoot cycles and it'll probably be more than enough to beat you. Maybe you use one of your offensive guys as a defender, but still; you're going to have to plan on defense in this situation, imo. Even if you have one too; why take chances?
And...if you're at an event deep enough to let you draft 3 amazing offensive robots, congratulations. Or condolences; I'm not sure which.
Although as another poster noted about 910 at Kettering, good robots can slip through the picks unnoticed. Our #2 pick at Hub City -- 1801 -- was well towards the top of our list but for whatever reason was available. They could have easily been someone's first pick.