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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
469 in 2010 was NOT a chokehold strategy.
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You're totally right, it wasn't technically a chokehold strategy. You could win against them by out scoring them (or blocking both goals). I think most people call their strategy "chokehold" because colloquially, a chokehold has come to mean a strategy which can generate large numbers of points essentially independently of opponent actions. I suppose by this same colloquial definition a FCS would be a "chokehold" strategy. It's hard, but not impossible, to beat a FCS, and good ones can essentially depend on scoring huge numbers of points.
2002 is the only year I've heard of that had a real chokehold strategy. I think the GDC has tried to eliminate true chokeholds from games in recent years, so I doubt we'll be seeing a true one again in the near future. That doesn't mean teams shouldn't looks for strategies like FCSs or 496 in 2010 that are able to generate large numbers of points in unconventional ways.