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Re: A Recycle Rush Reflection

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Originally Posted by nuclearnerd View Post
To be fair, there are going to be hundreds of teams at CMP that have no can-burgler at all, so if even if you have a slow one, you'll be valuable at the division finals.

Your point stands though for getting to Einstein. But that bar is set so high, I don't think most teams can realistically worry about it. The uber teams that make the most stacks will *also* be the ones with the fastest can-burglers, because they're the ones that will sink the most energy into it. At the level where Can Burgling is the "only thing that matters", the top ~2 teams per division will already have it locked up. The rest of us can be happy with a respectable playoff showing.

I'm not trying to sound defeatist. I'm super happy with my team's performance so far. But this game gives us few avenues to change the order that's been set early in build season.
I disagree. I don't believe the top 2 robots in a division will already have can grabbers locked down. Especially since many human player specialist robots are likely to rank the highest such as 148, 2122, 1538 ect... I think its fully reasonable for a team to focus only on being the fastest can grabber and being the critical third pick for a 148/1678 ish alliance. If your alliance can lock down the cans every match, your top 2 robots only have to make 6-7 stacks a match so if all your team does is grab the cans super fast, you are a very valuable robot.
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