[PBurrell]

In the peachtree regional, the winning alliance consisted of a shooter (1261), a dumper (1414), and another shooter/defense (1057). 1261 was the #1 seed, 1414 was the number 2 seed, and I don't remember 1057.

What we (1261) saw in 1414, was an unstoppable dumper during autonomous. Several teams tried to intercept them, but did not succeed. They consistently dumped all 10 balls during autonomous.

We had some autonomous shooting capability, but could be stopped after a limited number of balls were shot. If we were not targeted, we did OK during autonomous. We changed strategy depending upon our opponent.

We then had 1057 serving different roles depending upon opponent. They did very well adapting last minute to some of our alliance team requests. All in all, it paid off.

In the end, I agree with Lavery, a well balanced team is probably best. If an alliance depends on one thing (shooting), they can be stopped with no recourse.

Paul