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Re: Why the low Gear love

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Originally Posted by pmattin5459 View Post
For example (in elims):

2 bots, 6 gears each: 180 + another 20 pts if another auton bot + additional 100 pts for 4 rotor bonus.

Add another 90 pts (40 pts + 50 bonus for 40kpa) for an ideal fuel bot.

We end up with 390 pts. Up to 540 with three climbs. Good gearbots that can score 6 gears each + climb make up the majority of the points with this strategy, with the fuel bot bringing the cherry on top.

This is an ideal scenario, but it illustrates what a championship alliance may be able to accomplish with good gearing.
Going to throw this out there just in case you mis-read point values (like I've done in the past). The 40kpa threshold gives a 20 point bonus, not 50, according to table 4-1 in the manual. As far as I can tell, it is the only place in the manual which states the point value of the threshold.
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