[Tottanka]

Originally Posted by Travis Hoffman

2 Defense + 1 awesome scorer. Everyone thinks defensive-minded alliances can't score tubes. Purge that thought from your heads. Also purge the thought that all defensive robots have to play defense all the time - they don't. Some do; many don't.

Ramps aren't nullified if you hold a defensively-created rack score advantage at the beginning of endgame.

Again, we'll see. I challenge some of the big scorers to consider the possibilities of participating in a defensive alliance as an option as opposed to the "drown 'em in offense" alliance strategy - which is "nothing new".

you should see the Israeli regional winning alliance between 1574,1657 and 1950...
1574 was the best scorer of the regional only probem wsa it wasnt too hard to block.

therefore 1950 and 1657 simlpy stood and didnt let any opposing robot pass to their own half of the field, eaqch one blocking a different side of the rack and letting 1574 scoring 5-6 tubes on 2 hights, sometimes even 7 tubes and 40 seconds to the end 1950 lifting 1657 on their ramps giving 30 points more...that has simply worked every time they used this strategy...dont know if it will work in Atlanta in a match Vs. good scoring alliance but its not a bad option...
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