[dhitchco]

When the ball(s) are in your alliance's two ball corrals and/or are in the center goal "catch bin" (garbage can), there are four options:

1) Keep them there (stored)
2) Toss them over the wall (by your 3 human players) AND have them fall into your alliance robot's catch basin(s)
3) Toss them over the wall AND successfully score them in the opposing alliance side "mouse hole" goals
4) Or....just toss them onto the field.

You can do those four things at any pace you like. Now, let's think this through.

1) Why would you "keep" balls behind the line? They got there in the first place because a) they were your balls at the beginning of the match and you choose to not put them into play (pretty dumb move) or they are in your ball corrals because the other alliance has successfully scored. So, why would you NOT want to QUICKLY put those balls into play by options #2 or #3 above?

2) Why would you just randomly toss balls onto the field? Not likely since at any point of the match there's a 50/50 shot that your alliance or the opposition alliance can gather them up. Not great odds in that plan either.

3) Maximize your strategy by a combination of #2 and #3 above by doing the following: concentrate on re-loading your own alliance robots early in the match (at least that way, the other alliance can't get them) and then concentrate on going for the one-point goals at the end of the game (the other alliance won't have time to re-load)....

Lot's of things to think about.....