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Re: Climbing and dumping not winning?

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Originally Posted by XaulZan11 View Post
I think the key for the climber-dumpers is they need to be able to do something else than just get those 50 points. Ideally, they can get 18 points in autonomous and then do a cycle or play defense before starting the climb. I'm not sure a pure climber-dumper can be a foundation of a winning alliance.
I think that in theory, a very fast (as in can go from at the feeder station at the 30 second mark to points) could be an excellent component of a winning alliance this year, but "pure dumpers" tend to just take far too long to be useful defensively.

At BAE, 3467 had basically a 30 second climb but with no dump. They could slow each team down 1 cycle and then climb for 30, making an easy net contribution of 54 (+30 / -24) to the alliance. Unfortunately, I think a lot of teams designed pure hangers with defense as an afterthought.
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