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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan
Triplets are one of the best, however, 25 is better and undefeated for good reasons.
It's a quick loader, HP loading is working a lot better than anyone ever expected, it holds a good amount of balls 20 or so?
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From what I've seen, it sort of takes them a long time to load, and they really only hold more like 13 balls. Only being able to human load is sort of risky, once you face a smart defensive robot who either 1) blocks 25 in the corner, or 2) doesn't let them over to the HP to start with.
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Originally Posted by Conor Ryan
Nobody has shut them down at all, there are strategies you can use against them, but nobody can find the right combo.
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I think 25 is really good, but to date in the limited number of matches I've seen webcasted, I haven't seen a single team play smart defense on them. Most teams try to push them from the side or the rear. Not gonna work. You need to get in front of their turrett. Pretty much everyone they've faced has been perfectly content to let 25 make their way to the HP unimpeded, and once they're there, they let them take all the time they want to load.
Once I see 25 play some of the elite defensive robots that have defended shooters like the triplets, and they still dominate, I'll put 25 above everyone else.
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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
for any team to intentionally throw their matches so they end up low in the rankings would be unprofessional and incredibly poor sportsmanship
Once teams caught on to what was going on they would be boo'd and taunted until my voice gave out! :^)
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Who said that they would be throwing their matches? If one robot is #1, it doesn't much matter where the other robot is--the other has the first pick. Besides. It's entirely plausible that one of the teams could hit a streak of bad luck or have mechanical problems, and end up out of the top 8.