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Originally Posted by Abhishek R
Plus the fact that you have to be able to convert those cans to stacks, and it's entirely possible some of the fastest canburglars are not very good stackers.
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THIS. Just winning the can race is not enough to win, you have to use the cans. Because the elims all the way through the divisions and Einstein are average based and round robin, you are still going to have to put up big points as an alliance to advance. If you win all 4 cans but only put up 3 -6 stacks you are not going to advance. In the Einstein quarter finals you only see 2 of 8 teams, so a fast can grabber alliance who can't stack could easily get knocked off by the other side of the bracket where the cans split 2-2 and both teams throw up 5 stacks of 6.
I actually think that in the quarter finals and semi finals of both sub-divisions and Einstein you might see some alliances agreeing to let the cans go 2-2 to better their chances at making it to the final dance.
Which asks the question, how many alliances do you all think will have the capacity to put up more than 5 - 6 stacks? I think very few, especially at the sub division level, and even in the quarterfinals on Einstein it will be an issue for most.