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Originally Posted by artK
This reminds me, that based on how champs has ended in the past, I think this year, a #1 or #2 alliance will pick a robot with a really fast can grabber (w/o cheesecake) that the other alliances ignored, and said alliance will win champs because of this second round steal. It happens almost every year, with teams like 610, 16, 973, 177, 971, and 148 (the third champion robots from 2013-2008) falling to one of the last picks of the draft.
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I wasn't around on CD back then, so can somebody inform me of how often on CD was the overwhelming importance of minibots discussed in 2011? I tried doing some searches and couldn't find much discussion until after champs.
Similarly, how often was the importance of lap bots in 2008 or ball-stealers in 2012 talked about?
Can people point me to threads that talk about these issues
before champs in each of those years?
This canburglar stuff has been beaten to death on CD, I seriously doubt that any division will leave a
good canburglar to the end of the draft. And even looking at the teams that you mentioned, the more recent ones (610 and 16) were not
the last picks of the draft, instead they were selected by the lower seeded alliances. I expect something similar to happen this year, with a lower seeded alliance of alright robots and great canburglars winning a few of the divisions.