[frcguy]

Originally Posted by asid61

What a 1678 thing to say! I think that denial of robots and being able to "threaten" your opponents with them is an important aspect of 4th bots. For 2013 in particular, picking a goalie bot as your 4th to stop full-court shooters would have been an easy way to sub in and out for different alliances, and discourages your opponent from using their full court shooters.

This year too was an important year for "goalie" bots as the 3rd pick with defensive blockers. At least for our alliance in Curie it was great having a low-goal and breaching bot (5803), 2 pretty good high-goal shooters (3310, 2168), and us (5940) as a "utility player", as we could score low goals and breach but also had a big net we could bolt on for defense scenarios. That's what I think the 4th bot is great for, as it allows flexibility in an alliance's strategy being able to both put up a lot of points and slow down the opposing alliance's scoring depending on the circumstances and the level of the opponents.