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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
I know what you were saying, but it does not always prove true. In New Jersey, 25, 103, and 1302 won by being the last teams at the rack. Once the other alliance had gone back to ramp up, they would score the last few ringers to push their alliance over the top of the 60 point threshold. On occasion 103 would ramp on 1302 as well, but it very rarely happened.
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Though I'm a fan of the strategy used by the NJ winners, part of the reason that they didn't score many bonus points was that it wasn't easy to get up 1302's ramp - not that they didn't try.
On the other hand the Finalists had one good scoring robot, a defensive robot and a ramp, but got outscored 140-49 & 140-32. Even if they had gotten both of their robots up 12", they would still have lost to 25 & 103's ringers.
What I've seen and read about the events so far leads me to believe that we haven't seen many cases where there was a large number of good scoring robots
and good ramps, but that should change by Atlanta. My prediction is that to win in Atlanta will take two solid scoring robots and a strong ramp robot that can run interference for a scorer for the first half of the game.