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Originally Posted by JB987
Willing to bet all eight division winning alliances will include a very fast burglar cheescaked 3rd bot...
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Originally Posted by themccannman
1114 would have to have *the* fastest can grabber on the planet to justify this alliance. If they ever run into any team that is faster they will only have 3 cans. If they have a back up bot (cheesecake) which I assume they will, then they could get by without picking another can grabber.
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"Picking the fastest burglar" strategy only works through divisions, unless the fastest burglar is in your division. It also depends on whether can wars are deterministic, which at the highest levels may not be so true.
It's interesting that this year, every alliance has a back-up bot to cheesecake throughout division playoffs.
Having two 188pt bots (a robot capable of scoring 188 pts on their own) on an alliance does give you an advantage considering:
- cheesecaking (or any off-the-field improvements)
- the play-off structure
- possible non-deterministic nature of can wars
- blue side advantage
Such an alliance would only need to win two cans to win, and can play with only two robots, or without one of their best robots, and still proceed through division playoffs. If they had blue side advantage, then they would have to play against two burglars who are faster than them in order to lose all four.
Any alliance that plays a final against an alliance that win all four cans and caps 5/6 stacks will lose. On Einstein, besides improving your own mechanisms off-the-field, there's very little you can do.
An 1114/148 alliance, being both great teams and robots, could theoretically cheesecake two incredibly fast burglars, if they need to.