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Unread 02-06-2001, 16:04
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2 vs 2 more realistic (for lack of a better word)

with 2 vs 2 you have to design youre bot with added factors like durabilty in mind. it also adds a level of strategizing to the game that isnt reached in 4 vs 0. in this years competition everyone realized pretty quickly that there was only one strategy that was consistently a high scorer, and so everyone used that particular strategy. when its 2 vs 2 you have to strategize around the fact that youre opponent is gonna do everything he can to make youre life harder. you need to plan for youre strategy to fall apart and have back up plans. there is also far more improvisation that happens. this year, if the plan fell apart, everyone hauled it over to the end zone and hit the button.
on the other hand, when its everyone for themselves you dont have to coordinate with someone else. you do for 2 vs 2. so maybe last year first achieved the perfect balance, and overdid it this year.
then again, i think someone mentioned a while back that we arent neccissarily limited to 4 vs 0, 2 vs 2, etc. as they pointed out the number of bots competing is skyrocketing so maybe next year there wont be time for everyone to get in an adequate number of qualifying rounds. in that case maybe 3 vs 3 or even 4 vs 4 might work. i think a game along the lines of alliance a gets 130 to do something, then alliance b gets 30 seconds to undo everything, then switch up. this way 8 teams would get in 2 rounds in 4 minutes, with hardly any time needed for introductions and stuff since each team only needs to be introduced once at the beginning
of course, it could also be that i think too much about these things
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