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Originally Posted by BERTEvan
My team doesn't see that the containers on the step are crucial, due to the fact that games are based on points and not wins and losses. Can somebody give a detailed explanation of the importance of the step containers?
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Some people on my team used that argument for some other stuff, and I think it's highly fallacious. If you allow every other team to get an extra 30 points, then you have 30 point less than everyone else. You can't just give your opponent points like that, or allow them to grab the higest-scoring items in the game.
Secondly, in elims, to advance you need to have more points than your opponent. Meaning if they can't get points, you are more likely to advance. This is where the can (and can denial) matter because a high-seeded teams with good scouting will see that you have a good can plucker.
I was honestly considering just a giant plastic plate with holes big enough for cans, that snapped down at the start of the match over the cans and pulled them in. Then you bring it back up and drive slowly and carefully while making small stacks of totes around the field, or pushing totes from the player station to the scoring zones. At the higher levels I fell that this would be a very useful strategy.