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I think the best teams are the ones who not only can assist well during a match, but has a coach that communicates with the other coaches and drivers on their alliance so assists are done efficiently, so there is no time wasted chasing the ball on the field. The best teams will pre-plan their strategies clearly, either verbally or by drawings, and will stick to that strategy the entire match.

A team that can consistently rack up points by accurately scoring in the top goal and can do assists will do very well in the competition. A team that regularly scores in the bottom goal can do just as well, but they should make sure that as many assists possible were made before scoring, in order to compete with a team that does lots of assists AND high goal scoring.

Unless an alliance works really well together, I can't see catching being done too often, just like scoring the pyramid goal in 2013. It's a difficult bonus that isn't really worth the difficulty, especially when there are other things to do in a match that yield more points reliably and in less time.