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Re: FIRST Stronghold Match Strategy
See the Manual, section 5.5.10.
Quick answer, you make your defense selections two matches ahead of your own, and find out what defenses your opponents have selected one match ahead. This happens in the queue.
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Back to your first question: match strategy depends on your robot. If you have a fast (touch-it-own-it) intake, then you should carry a boulder during every crossing you make. Then either complete the cycle yourself, shooting high or low (whichever is quicker and more accurate for your robot), or leave the boulder for one of your partners to shoot. Repeat until you have the breach. Then cycle boulders by your fastest method; or, if your partners have that role covered*, go play defense to slow the opposition's cycles, until the endgame warning. Then haul 'bot to the challenge.
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*'Covered' means they can weaken the tower without your help.
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Last edited by Richard Wallace : 18-03-2016 at 10:50.
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