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Re: What is a winning alliance going to look like?

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Originally Posted by pandamonium View Post
While I often agree with you Kevin, any event just seems off. Hanging mechanisms will be the cheesecake flavor of the year IMO. If one robot on the alliance can climb in theory all 3 could with cake. 10 additional points is not a big advantage but 30 is. I would even go as far to say that climb points will be the winning margin at at least 5 regionals before week 5.
Interesting thought actually. I never even thought about cheesecaking a hanger on another robot. I'm gonna go talk to my teams about this idea (although there are some obvious hurdles to overcome to do that).

However I still believe it won't be necessary to hang to win any event in weeks 0.5-4

The winning alliances will win because of their abilities breaching defenses and capturing towers more often than their ability to scale the tower.
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