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Re: Most Effective Robot EVER?

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
Their robot was not at all built for quals. You got 3x the losers score, so if Beatty had all 3 goals the highest losing score the opponent was going to get is 20 points (10 per robot in home zone at end of match).

If I remember correctly, a thrown ball got stuck under them before they could grab the goals and that lead to their loss in elims.
Right. There were many matches where Beatty intentionally didn't control all three goals in an effort to help increase the losers score.
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