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Originally Posted by Overyourhead
Have you seen a common strategy among teams at your regionals?
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It's all about autonomous. If you win big in autonomous, you win the match. Two fabulous robots that miss in autonomous will lose to an alliance that can dump 8-10 pucks into the center goal in auto. No other single factor makes any real difference. At the Washington event, most elimination matches were essentially over by about 45 seconds into teleop. Some were over at the end of auto. Not much scoring happened after the first minute when four good robots were on the field.
Secondarily, as usual in robots, the better the alliances the more important and effective defense becomes. There were a lot of robot parts scattered around the field when defensive strategies ramped up. The last final match was 141 (44ish in auto) to 101 (all in teleop).
Third, if someone had a really, really fast solution for scooping pucks off the floor and scoring them, they would have a distinct advantage. You'd have to be good and fast, though, as most floor-lifters can realistically only score a handful of pucks compared to the tray dumpers.