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Originally Posted by EricH
In Los Angeles, 3309 parlayed climbing into being picked first. When they broke out their climb-and-dump for the first time (all 50 points of it!) in the late QFs or their first SF match, they put a HUGE target on their backs. Regional finalist 981 proceeded to play very aggressive defense during the next semi, stopping them cold (981's alliance won the match, despite racking up 3 Technical Fouls from that defense). Apparently, something went wrong with 3309's climber during the third match--despite a lack of defense (though the threat was there), they didn't climb.
4210, the other triple-bot (though no dump) at the event, was knocked out by a barrage of shots from the #6 seed's three shooters into the goals.
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Yep, it was our camera mount of all things - it was bent such that the drivers had no idea if they were lined up to climb (we'd been battling pyramid alignment issues all weekend, finally gotten them solved, only to have this happen, naturally more fixes will happen for LV).
Our team agreed early on that a 50 point climb and dump alone wouldn't cut it - an 18 point auto and telop shooting are needed to balance things out and prevent the "one-trick pony" problem. We really only had everything working together at the very end of LA, it certainly takes time.