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Re: Is the Boiler worth it?

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Originally Posted by pmattin5459 View Post
You lose a couple of cycles while shooting the balls you're collecting. If you do such a strat, you can only get maybe two rotors on your own. It's better to either shoot the entire match (and be sure to hit that 40kpa) and then gear rather than pursuing a hybrid strat that may or may not get you both 2/3 rotors turning and 40kpa. Especially if one of your alliance partners can hit 6-8 gears on their own.
You may be significantly underestimating the speed at which some teams will release a torrent of balls on the high goal... The time spent shooting for some teams will be less than 5 seconds for 50 balls. I'll let you draw your own conclusions on how a match like this will play out when they have a collector that can fill up their hopper once every gear cycle or two.

Edit: And yes, there will be a team somewhere that does everything well. 7 gear cycles, 150 balls scored in the high goal, climb, all by themselves.
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