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Re: Tele-op defense vs strictly focusing on cycle times and offense

Effective situational defense is going to be really interesting at higher levels. If gearing is tougher than we think and a typical elim alliance takes most of a match getting all rotors going, then knowing when to go all out stopping the bot with the last gear is going to be important. Sending two climbing bots after a climbing bot with the last gear is completely rational. Keeping accurate count of opponent gears is going to be important, and feinting by waiting to spin up rotors might be a thing.

Which also means pilots will need to have decently secure one way communication with coaches to keep the drive team informed on the gears remaining. Brightly coloured glove fingers against a dark shirt. Counting gears would also be a good job for the third pilot, really.
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