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Originally Posted by waialua359
I must be getting it wrong. We have suggested no defense in all of the 33 matches we played in 2 events, both quals and elims.
Capture is our focus, achieving it 18 times.
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That may be a special case for power house teams. In many low to mid level regionals the number of competent high goal shooters are concentrated within the higher place alliances. This means that 7th or 8th place alliances may not even have a high goal shooter that's worth mentioning. This means that if alliance 7 goes up against alliance 2 and alliance 7 goes purely for capture they will be outscored every time by alliance 2 due to the extra points gained by high goals in auto and teleoperated. This is true regardless of whether or not alliance 7 captures.
With this reasoning, the only way for alliance 7 to beat alliance 2 is to prevent the capture of alliance 2 through defense. Alliance 7 will still be able to capture because low goal cycles are much faster than high goal ones and much less susceptible to defense. I'm unsure if this is what was seen at the Dalton Event, but it was most certainly the case in Utah this past weekend. 6th place alliance (1477, 5933, 3374) was able to beat out second place alliance (3021, 329, 4944) in semi-finals with some absolutely amazing defense by 3374. Although the evidence is anecdotal and subject to spectator bias, I believe defense is the best offense when lower alliances with poor high goal potential are up against higher alliances with strong high goal potential.
Please keep in mind that I argue this theory in reference to mid-low level competitions because defense matters much less to the high level robots, especially since their cycle time become insanely fast and may even rival low goal cycles in speed.