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Re: Winning Defensive Allaince?

I think it is hard to really debate on this topic. I think given all the teams in the world, if you could pick from all of them, the 3 offensive alliance would win. I base this on the three regionals I saw, and for several reasons.

1. 3 very strong capping teams, can cap anywhere at any time... if one defender is blocking one of the 3, the other two can pick up the slack.

2. Any offensive robot can play defense at any time. All you have to do is get in the way of another team, or put your arm over a goal, or steal a tetra away from another team... and you have defense.

But there is a problem with this, that has already been mentioned. After you get through the top two or three selections in the second teams selected, there are generally no really strong cappers left... and the lower alliances are forced to select a good defender.

This happened to us in rochester & cleveland, we were the 7th & 5th alliance captain, and were left with dbots to choose from. And we lost both times, because 3 cappers could always out score us.

However, in toronto, we were selected by the 1114 & 1305 pair, and all three of us could consistantly score 5-6 tetras per match. We were unstoppable, because each of us could score well, and all of us played defense at one time or another. We guarded the center goal twice, turing other teams away... and our teammates often got in the way of other robots trying to score, alll while the other two of us would run around scoring like crazy.

So my vote, for what it is worth, this year is on the 3 scorers.
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