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Originally Posted by George Nishimura
I wasn't discounting the importance of the can wars. If I did, it was unintentional and I retract the statement. I also wanted to build on what was said, not disagree with it.
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Sorry I guess that was a misunderstanding on my part, your post made it sound like 1114 + 148 could beat everyone with only 3 cans.
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My point was that if one of 1114 and 148 finish first, they can't pick the fastest can grabber if the fastest can grabber is on Carson or Archimedes or wherever. The strategy of picking the fastest can grabber only works in Division eliminations for 7 out of 8 alliances that make it to Einstein, and then will stop working.
The other point is there might not be one fastest can grabber, ie that the difference between two grabbers might be so minuscule that it would be difficult to predict even after two matches head-to-head.
The third is the strategic advantage of being able to outscore an opponent with two cans each. That puts pressure on the other team to secure (as in prevent the opposition from reaching) three cans, which requires (most likely) two good robots, not one. IE the 1114/148 alliance can put their best burglar against the other team's weaker burglar (with blue side advantage), whereas the other alliance has to match up best to best.
The chokehold strategy is having the two fastest burglars in all 800 teams. My contention is that it might not be the case that an alliance can form such a partnership, and it might be easier to engineer a 3rd/4th robots that can compete with at least one of every other alliance's burglars.
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Now I see where your coming from. And yes, I pretty much agree with your thought process here, there really is only 1 fastest grabber, and it's hard to know who it is until you actually race them.