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Originally Posted by Jim Wilks
What about IRI? 2 of the first 3 members of the winning alliance were 50 pt climbers. Other than having to share the 6 colored discs, this worked well and they came home with a blue banner.
Clearly, I have a bit of a bias on this subject as a member of one of those 3 teams.
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True, however none of those teams were a
dedicated 30 point climber/dump. Both scored 3 of 3 in teleop with 3-5 cycles.
One of the arguments mid season was from teams who set out to solely climb the pyramid and/or dump and yet it wasn't a winning strategy getting beaten by simple cycling robots. The main problem in the dedicated climber strategy is it has to be something you can do reliably, quickly, and play defensively for the rest of the time to be a winning strategy.
I believe climbing can be a core part of a winning strategy. At IRI we had several matches where we were out of frisbees and all that was left was climbing. In semi final 1.1 our team finished 4 cycles with just under a minute left and I believe our partners were out shortly there after and 33 began sweeping the field.