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Re: pic: 2013.5 Mock Game Pipefall

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Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14 View Post
I did not read too carefully but I like that you chose to allow teams to possess as many pipes as they design for. I prefer that to games where teams are limited to 1, 3, 4 etc.
We had a lot of debate about this. We wanted a mass quantity game like 09 and a single object game like 2011. We almost limited the number of large pipes but thought better of it. If you can design for it why should the game penalize you?

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik View Post
Best brickbot hybrid/first 5s strategy: Drive forward and shove all your opponent's pipes into the corner.
That's why the pipes start on both sides of the field and some in the middle.
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