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Re: How to win Steamworks? (Weeks 1/2)

Having an alliance of 3 gear-focused robots and at least 2 climbers will definitely win you any week 1/2 event.


Since you need 12 gears, and presumably 3 less because of auto programs, you need only 9 gears to finish all the rotors.

At a cycle time of 12 seconds, it should take around ~40 seconds for three organized and efficient gear-focused robots to finish all four rotors. This means that 40 seconds into the match, they have 60*2(auto) + 40*2(teleop) + 100 (Playoff Rotor Bonus) = 300 points.

This means that you have 95 seconds to play extremely hard defense on the opposing alliance to stop them from finishing their rotors, as it's basically impossible to make up the score difference by scoring fuel.

With 2 hangers, you can increase your scoring potential to 400.

TL;DR: If you finish your rotors and your opponents don't, you win the match. Fuel doesn't matter.
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