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Re: Rookie team in need of scaling advice

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Originally Posted by cantdecide View Post
Kind of offtopic, but we recently had an argument about exactly that with my team. I argued that the gain was 10 points1, but my teammate argued that it was 15 points2.

1: The game reveal clearly suggests that the 5 point bonus from challenging a tower is removed when you scale it, and the whole sum becomes 15 points(5 is crossed out and 15 takes its place). However:
2: As far as I can see the game manual only has a table(page 3 of the manual) which says that challenging is worth 5 points, and scaling is worth 15. It says nothing about the scaling bonus negating the challenging bonus.

Which one is correct? Can you provide sources?

Here's the part of the video that shows 5 getting replaced by 15.
3.1.4 THE TOWER
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A ROBOT has CHALLENGED the TOWER if, at the conclusion of the MATCH, the ROBOT is fully
supported by the TOWER, but hasn’t met the criteria for SCALING the TOWER.
Glossary:
Quote:
CHALLENGE an act performed by a ROBOT, such that at the conclusion of the MATCH, the ROBOT
is fully supported by the TOWER, but hasn’t met the criteria for SCALING the TOWER
Once you've scaled, you're no longer challenging. Thus, you can't get points for both.
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