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Originally Posted by Justin Shelley
I've been doing a lot of thinking and I can't decide which of these two options would be the best
Captain) Strong cycle bot with a 7 disc auto and 30pt climb
First Pick) Strong FCS with a hang
Second Pick) FCS with a hang
The advantage of this setup is that with two FCS and a cycler your opposing alliance has either the option to let you shoot like a boss or choose to block your FCS, thus reducing their scoring capabilities. With this setup even if you miss the FCS shots then your floor pickup captain can pick up the missed disc for maximum points.
Captain) Strong cycle bot with a 7 disc auto and 30pt climb
First Pick) Strong FCS with a hang
Second Pick) Strong defender with a 18pt auto and at least a 20pt climb
The advantage of this setup is that your FCS and cycler can both shoot while your defender cripples your competitors FCS. The only thing is that there are many FCS bots that can shoot around or through, 1706, a defensive robots guard.
I think a FCS is extremely important to a winning alliance, but this competition will be won by great cycling robots and climb points to a lesser extent
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I'm of the opinion alliance composition for most winning alliances will compose of an FCS, Ground Pickup, and Cycler. The alliance probably needs to pull off at least 13 discs in auto between them to compete well.
Now based on the teams and divisions we're talking about, the FCS, GnDPkp, and Cycler will have varying strengths based on which one is the captain.
In Galileo, for example, 1114 could be the alliance captain or first pick, being the strong cycler on the alliance.
However, in Newton, the FCS could be the captain/first pick being that it has such a strong set of FCS's.
Archimedes is going to be decided by the ground pickups- and some times in the division can be all three roles depending on their alliance partners (i.e. 469 and 987).
Curie is a very balanced division, but chances are goos that a team like 2056 seeds first and picks 67, making the cycler the weaker alliance partner in the winning alliance.