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Re: 2015 Champs Discussion

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Originally Posted by jds2001 View Post
The difficulty with this is that if all that you have is canburglers and no stackers, then you don't have anything to put all of your recycling containers on and they'll be worth absolutely zero. You really need a well-balanced alliance.
I couldn't agree more. I meant that it depends on what the alliance captain can do. For instance if the alliance captain can steal two cans off the step, they would probably be best picking another canburgler as their first pick and a stacker as a second. If the alliance captain is good at stacking however, it would be better to pick two canburglers. The situation gets more complex when you add in the factor that at championship, the level of play is probably high enough that at least one if not both canburglers are also going to be decent landfill bots/ stackers in general.

As said before, as long as your alliance gets all four cans off the step, you odds of winning increase exponentially, regardless of if you use all of those cans or not.
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