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Originally Posted by Chris is me
Funny you mention EWCP's TwentyFour blog. A post Andrew and I are working on will be debating the "was / was not worth it" arguments for the 50 point climb.
I maintain that with a fast enough climb speed, a good enough driver, and the right circumstances, a 50 point climber could have been an effective alliance partner all the way up to the Championship elimination rounds. I'll either finish that blog post or post again in this thread if I don't have time for the former.
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I would say IF the climber was fast enough building a pure climber/dumper was worth it. Unfortunately most teams with a fast climber had a frisbee game with them (67, 1114, 1918, 1986, 254, 1334, 3467, 1640, 71, etc) or they were very slow/unreliable. Some dedicated climbers didn't have dump capabilities which really wasn't the greatest decision because that put their ceiling down at 30 points.
A very deadly combo would have been a 15-30 second climber/dumper that could play very effective defense and block full court shots before climbing. I could see this robot doing very well at a regional and making into eliminations at the championship but it really comes down to how fast your climb is and how good your driver at defense.
Looking back I can imagine most teams who were strictly climbers wouldn't do it again if they had to redo 2013.