Well, the strategist has always been an important factor of the game. With a robot that drove extremely well last year (and keep in mind that is all we could really do) we seeded first in LA and picked Kingman and the BeachBots to win...
The ONLY reason we seeded first is because as driver, I had 20 strategy cards that I made so I could look at them to determine what we wanted to do. An example would be:
1 Ball picker + 1 goal grabber Vs. 2 goal grabbers
I literally drew out the most common 30 secs for each of the above combinations and with a little bit of luck (and my uber skills
) we were able to take first.
It is not always the best robot that wins, but always the best strategy
Oh... and one more thing... yes, there is one strategy that I predict has an %80 chance of winning if executed successfully every time
