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Re: Efficient Points

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Originally Posted by ldsedam View Post
Gears are only more efficient for the first 3 rotors. The last rotor is super inefficient. I know that in a district match a single robot wont be able to get that far, but when you're moving to championship eliminations every alliance will be able to cap out all rotors.

After this climbing is the most important. If your alliance has 2 robots that can climb, but another has 3 then it will be very difficult to win.

Finally, when your in finals at a championship and both alliance can cap out all the rotors as well as have 3 robots that can climb, the winning alliance is the one that can shoot fuel.
Some things to add on to this:

1. Whether or not your robot can shoot fuel is a very different decision than whether or not your alliance can shoot fuel. You can recognize that fuel shooting is an aspect of the game that may be required at certain levels of play without doing it yourself necessarily.

2. At no point will a single robot score all 12 gears by itself this season. It will be quite rare for two of them to score 12 gears without some help from the 3rd (e.g. dropping a gear on the ground for them to pick up).
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