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If you get 40 kPa autonomous (which can be managed by just one robot), then that would be worth 60 points on its own, which is more than enough to make up for being one rotor behind.

However, I think teleop should mainly focus on gears. If you get a lead on gears, it's generally huge, but the return is diminishing. (At least in qualifying matches. In playoff, if you get the 4th rotor and your opponents don't, you've definitely won.) For example, in a qualifying match, a good strategy might be to go for the first 3 rotors and then focus on fuel. Then, you would need to score 120 balls or more in the high goal in the time your opponents would score 6 gears. You could probably get 40 or so balls per cycle, so even if your cycles are slower than theirs, you could still win.

Another big factor is how skilled everyone is. During regionals, a lot of matches will just be decided by gears, but at higher levels everyone will max gears and the question is who can score fuel faster (or play better defense).