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Re: Defense Type and Position Selection

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Originally Posted by TDav540 View Post
I'm going to ignore the first part of the statement and focus on the second half.

All events are different. Just because at one event the bottom of your picklist has teams that can solo breach doesn't mean everyone's does. Honestly, at both of our events so far, we haven't been able to put anyone beneath the 8th position at our picklist who can solo breach, simply because that's who could solo breach at our events.

But my main point is this: just because you can't solo breach doesn't mean you fail to be a valuable partner. Does it make it much, much easier to select someone who can? Of course, having that flexibility is great. But if I have a team who can score 6-7 boulders per match, and is only missing maybe one or two catagories of defenses, I think it's worth considering. A special case? Maybe, but I've seen it more than a few times. They might not have failed their strategic design; likely, they might have just gone about it differently.

And the point about Auton by Paul Richardson is also a good one.
At the end, I did say there were exceptions. 4481 was at the Tech valley regional this past weekend, and they couldn't solo breach, but they did hit 6 high goal shots in a match once. But they're definitely the exception rather than the rule.

I might amend my original statement though- if you can't solo breach when the Sallyport is on the field, you probably failed your strategic design from day 1. Not doing the low bar can make sense if you can do the bumpy stuff, the CDF/Portcullis, and do the sallyport backwards.
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