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Originally Posted by bEdhEd
From my experience, being offensive wins matches more often than being defensive. I've found that acquiring more points for your own alliance is much more valuable than preventing the other alliance from scoring. The bottom line is that offense scores points, and defense does not. Teams like 1114 and 118 are aware of this, and may be too busy during a match scoring assists and goals, that they need not bother with being a goalie. I do see a possibility, though, of a high performance team choosing a good goalie robot -- that ideally can also score in the low or high goal and can do controlled assists -- as an alliance pick.
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What you say is generally true. Outscoring your opponents is what wins. If your combined offense and defense is better than theirs you win, and that depends on the game and the effectiveness of the defense. In 2000, team 25 had the ultimate defensive robot. It could score almost zero on general offense, but could remove balls from their opponents goal and score them for their alliance. They couldn't qualify worth a darn, but were deadly with the right partner and ultimately ended up on the Championship alliance.
In this year's game, with a lot of high scoring teams likely, it is possible that a good defensive robot vs. the opponents high scorer might even the odds in elimination. Most likely that defensive (third choice) will be a generalist that can maneuver, pass, score with a kick-$@#$@#$@# driver as opposed to a special defense only bot.
A remote possibility is an autonomous defense specialist. This will only come about if someone has such a devastating autonomous scorer that a defense is needed. It is unknown if a super autonomous scorer will be developed.