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Unread 20-03-2006, 16:13
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Re: Ideal Alliance Structure

My admitedly MAVERICK-biased recipe:
1. Place one part RoBBE Xtreme (combination corner dumper/center shooter, floor sweeping robot) in the starting position nearest your corner goal;
2. Add one Raider Robotix (powerful, high traction, fast shooting top loader) in position two;
3. Complete with a Cybersonics (agile, fast, floor sweeping long range shooter) in position three;
4. Turn on Autonomous and watch them score. 56 fills the corner goal in a very hard to defend straight line run, 25 races to the ramp and unloads a string into the center and 103 moves to center field and shoots over 25's shoulder.

This alliance has speed, manuverability, power and the ability to unleash a torrent of balls on the center goal. Note that all three have pretty low CG and moment of inertia, and 25's chassis is very hard to deflect, making them able to keep a their opponents reacting rather than ruling. RoBBE's versatility makes it especially hard to defend. All of them climb the ramp easily, with tip overs pretty rare.

We saw two-thirds of this alliance in NJ, with a very good center shooter (1279) instead of 56, and they rolled to victory with an average score of 96.5 pts across all their matches. I wonder what this alliance would average?
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