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Originally Posted by Taylor
As Frank mentioned in his Frank Answers Friday Live at CHP, this game was designed to more closely approximate traditional sports. Much like traditional sports, this required teams to specialize (every team sport has individual players that excel at a certain aspect of the game). With the specialization that comes with AA, there wasn't a need to add a secondary challenge - especially since there were three ways to score points instantly.
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I think that's interesting that Frank said that. I would argue that last year was much more important to specialize.
This year every elite team had to be able to do everything in the game, ground pickup, trussing, high goal scoring, low goal scoring, inbounding, and defence.
Last year there was no single team that accomplished every task in the game. Floor pickup, 30 pt climbing, 20 pt dumping, and full court shooting were all relatively rare, and they were never seen all together by the one robot. On top of that, you had to pick teams that were different from yours. Two floor pickups were a bit much. 2 dumpers? Diminishing returns.
The most difference you got this year was trusser vs. finisher, and elite teams still had to be able to do both.