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Re: Is the Boiler worth it?
I think that the top teams at events, both in terms of alliance captains and first picks, will tend to be robots a mastery of gear manipulation as well as one of high goals or climbing.
While gears are the big points in this game (I think everyone agrees here), they are finite and rather defendable. Plus, with how obviously advantageous gear-scoring is, I think robots who do so will be abundant. Teams will be served well by having another scoring method in their toolbox to stand out and give them a strategic edge.
40 kPa of boulders yields nearly the same number of match points as climbing, plus one RP. Last year, bonus RP made a world of difference, and with them being considerably harder to earn this year than last, I think robots who can pull off the high shot will quickly scale the rankings.
However, with shooting this year being harder and way more defendable, I think it's really important to not put all of your eggs in the shooter basket. To be successful, I believe shooters will need to something else really well as well. Defense this year is going to be ferocious. For this reason, I think the fill-the-boiler-in-auto strategy is going to be incredibly powerful. Shooters who don't intend to finish the job in auto better plan around defense in teleop, or they will be easy targets.
Climbing is also rather valuable, and is not defendable. For this reason, I think the most desirable robots during alliance selection (i.e. the early first picks) will be relaible gear/climber bots. Those climb points will be particularly value in elims, where having a climber instead of a shooter doesn't sacrifice an RP.
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Last edited by Brian Maher : 10-01-2017 at 21:43.
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