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Re: What happened in Curie???

Ed,

You make a good point, but for our team and our strategy we intended to starve the field of rocks. When a human player was on our alliance, the first thing they were told was to not shoot the moon rocks unless the trailer was stopped generally in front of them.

We prioritized on a high capacity dumper that could human load from the top and could human load in auton. Combined with our human loading in auton, we could keep many of our balls off of the floor and "starve" the field. In essence, almost every ball we were pciking up from the floor was not ours.

There were many ways to wn this year, but this strategy worked for us.
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