[smclean1969]

I don't think there's a one size fits all answer here. If an alliance has a single dominant robot, then it makes the most sense to try to shut down that robot. Then let it be a shoot out with the rest of the alliance. If it's a balanced alliance then it should be a zone defense. If this plays out as a lot of the previous years, there are two offensive robots and a single defensive robot.

I can see it where the ball is in-bounded to a Robot A that passes it over the truss to the primary scoring Robot B. Robot C primarily plays defense through either trying to block or robot-robot defense. Once Robot B passes, then it can go play defense as well.

This is going to be very interesting because it requires more alliance work than in the past where a single dominant robot could win a match all by iteself.