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Originally Posted by AllenGregoryIV
When an alliance wins a regional without consistently trussing during cycles, I'll happily admit I was wrong. Nothing in the rules said you had to hang at the end of last years game, but there wasn't a single winning alliance that didn't have at least one robot consistently on the pyramid at the end of the match last year.
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Truss scoring has a much different strategic impact to the game than pyramid climbing did, no matter how high you chose to do it. It isn't a 5-10 sec way to add points at the end of a cycle, it is an easy to perform way to gain points during a cycle that has the potential to significantly reduce cycle time. We also don't know how defense is going to play out, if the offense doesn't have a catcher on the team, a defensive bot could bounce it right off themselves and across the field. I wouldn't chalk the truss shot up as being a given for any good alliance just yet, even though I personally think it will be very common.