Strategy cannot win a match alone, there's nothing you can do if you break or your simply over powered. i know its not a direct fit but its relevant. during the 2011 to 2012 vex season (gateway) before the NZ designs completely plagued the competition my team was able to win 5 competitons in a row (october to febuary) the first 4 were undefeated. admittedly the first two we won because we were way more prepared than any other team at the event (we worked all summer preparing for the first one. by the third event teams started to catch up and we won only on a good robot and strategy. by the fourth we weren't even the best team there, the NZ designs were better than "Ronny" and we knew it. it was a combination of luck and a solid strategy. the fifth was all strategy, the NZ designs crushed us in skills (were weren't even in the top 5 in robot skills) the design was faster and more efficient. a top seed picked us on only our reputation and were quite clear about it. they immediately forfeited alliance captain. they had the better robot but they knew we were the smarter more resourceful team.
i think the question should be weather you would like a team with a better robot or strategy. do not forget about a teams ability to adapt, at our last competition (in first now) we had our alliance caption die on the field and still won the match(switch the scoring efforts and use the dead robot as a road block).
Quote:
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
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