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Be prepared to see teams that you have scouted as being "good" totally shut down by defense. There are a lot of robots that are just slightly below the powerhouse teams this year in terms of shooting accuracy and ball control, but can get shut down by good defensive teams.

By elimination round, I expect to see 6 robots in the same zone quite often, and lots of traffic jams. Once a few teams realize that extreme super defense is a good strategy, it becomes really hard to score.

The other strategy that I've seen played only once in this game (at a practice match over a webcast) is the strategy where two robots park against the side of the field, have a human player load one, which spits it into the robot in front of it, which fires it over the truss to the human player, who throws it to the third robot, who is parked in front of the goal. No robot movement, 3 assists, and a truss. Another team at this practice match tried to stop this strategy by playing aggressive defense, but they never could. I'm not sure if this is a viable strategy, but it's cool to watch.