At KSC, the big strategy (aka the one used by the four semifinalists) was to have one robot grab two goals and hold them in their zone before anyone else could get a shot at them. In that way, the teams that will probably go first in the alliance selections will be the one who can grab, pull, and hold two goals the fastest.
However, a lot of matches (especially the exciting one in the quarterfinals) were decided by the number of balls in the goals. So if you have a way to [b]reliably[\b] dump ten balls into a goal, you have a good shot of getting picked.
Though the best way to do it is to get a top-8 seed, of course.
