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Re: Driving Strategies for this year --
I think this belongs in the rules/Stratagies section.
Now then. I'm not sure if this is the best place to post all of what I have to say, but it does involve driving.
From what I saw at Sussex, dumpers are the most effective scoring method. So, you could try to immobilize them. Pinning them or jack knifing their trailers so they can't dump into a trailer could be effective. Then shooting/dumping into their trailers to score. IMO, this is the most effective way for a shooter without a terrific program to score. Also, an alliance member can pin the target robot while another shooter/dumper gets the super cells and scores you a quick thirty points.
I see some problems with this strategy. If your robot is not moving, it makes you an easy target for the other alliance's robots and human players. It would obviously be important to pin them as far away from the other alliance's human players as possible. Against a robot, you are out of luck, unless one of your alliance mates comes to help block people from scoring on you, your unmoving trailer will be easy prey. Though I think this could be a fair trade off if you can manage to keep them pinned and get the two super cells into their trailer.
The second problem I see is the robot will, in most cases, not be able to get more balls to score on the pinned trailer. Once your robot is out of balls, you must decide whether to keep them pinned for your other alliance partners to score, or let them go to get more balls for yourself.
Thats all I gots to say about that.
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