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Re: how effective are the herders/dumpers?

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Originally Posted by Tetraman
oh man...I got a story for you.

Dumpers are awsome...but never have two on a team.

At the end of the seeding matches at Buckeye...The first seeded team 965 (I think that's their number) choose team 123. Both these two teams are dumpers. When it came time to choose the last of their team, all they could choose was the Scarabian Knights 120 as the best shooter of who was left, and the shooter barely made any points at all.

The teams took the first matches by storm and ended easily on the platform, we thought we didn't stand a chance. But the dumpers have one very big flaw...they can only score in the lower goals. Thus, 272 and 174 stuck ourselves against the goals while 494 picked up balls during the times where the dumpers had offence. We took offence and all three of us too to the goal and loaded in about 40 points, and took to the goals again to block for the final period. By that time, there would be no chance for the extra 25 point bonus to even count.

I'd say a dumper is nice to have, but use caution when chooseing one.
I remember a match when the other alliance had three dumpers, and all we had to do was sit in front of the corner goals the whole time and it was an easy win.
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