[-matt-]

That is very ture psquared. Take last year for example: the stragety was practically set out for you. Pick up balls, give them to your human player, then cap the big ball and hang. You could argue the same with this year:cap tetras. However, the fact that tic-tac-toe is involved opens up a whole new level of complexity.

In addition, I believe that this years game is much more like football than anything else, more spefically, the triple option (triple play, triple option anyone?). You have one robot work on the back, thats the full back. he sets up the foundations of the game, and gets the back row, and goes and block when needed. The other two robots are running backs. They go and score wherever they can. When playing defense, there is run defense (pushing the robot) and pass defense (attacking the tetra while the other robot is attempting to cap). Perhaps I see it this way because I play football, but the similarties are there, even if not at first glance.