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Re: 1114 the Statistical Outlier
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Originally Posted by Chris is me
The biggest problem with this game is that the returns grow exponentially. If your robot can just cap stacks, it's worthless without a great, fast stacker. If your robot can just stack six, it's not putting up stellar scores without a capper. If your robot can just stack 3 and cap a 3-stack, you're doing okay, but you can't compete at anywhere near the top level for elims. But if you can stack and cap six, you're putting up 3 times as many points as anyone else. There are HUGE returns for "doing everything" and huge penalties for compromising any part of your design to do "one thing well". Teams who aren't powerhouses had to choose between hoping they get to pick a perfect alliance of specialists, or trying to do everything and over committing. It's no wonder the top teams are so much better.
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Which is why one cannot simply win on their own. It takes coordination with alliance members.
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