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Originally Posted by pmattin5459
Yep. If our robot encounters any other shooters, we will dump every single hopper. It's a basic bit of defense that slows down many shooters' first pickup from a few seconds to however long it takes their floor pickup to fill their hopper (maybe around 5-10 sec?).
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Sure, at a glance that's a fantastic strategy. However,
let's look at some potential results.
If you
do have a floor intake, I'll capitalize on the time you spend dumping the hoppers to squeeze in an extra gear cycle. That has the potential to make a big difference. Then, if you start scoring I will start cycling fuel in my retrieval zone, since you are feeding locations that I can load from. While you have the scoring lead, I have the gear lead (from when you were dumping hoppers).
Now, if you
don't have a floor intake I'll start on gears, and just do gears continuously. I keep my one gear lead and you capitalize off of very little.
Not saying that hopper dumping (or better put, field reset's nightmare) is a bad strategy, just saying that it can be used against you.