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Re: Did Lunacy really level the playing field?

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Originally Posted by Mr. Pockets View Post
You're right, but for all intents and purposes wouldn't it be slightly impractical to try to take away a veteran team's advantage of experience.


Didn't the three different types of game pieces count as different elements?
I also thought that there were complementary strategies used this year as well.

By the way, thanks for mentioning the other games. I need to look up what some of them were.
Experience is the one thing that you cannot take away. You also cannot get it without having it. (If that makes sense... if not, PM me.)

What I meant was that each individual game had several types of game pieces (game elements) worth varying amounts of points. It didn't matter much if they were restricted to one alliance or open to anyone. The variety was amazing, as you might see (to take 2004) a bar-bot that was tall and a mouth-bot that opened very wide on the same alliance.

As for this year having complementary strategies, that's kind of debatable. You see, there was really only one main strategy: load balls into your opponents' trailers as fast as possible. Reload. Repeat. Compare that to 2004, where if you were a herder that could handle the doublers (60/254, 980, for example), you might want a better small-ball robot (like 33), but if you were going up against a bar-blocker like 330 or 190, you had a much smaller chance of success. However, if 330 and 190 were on the same alliance, they'd have very little chance of winning because they'd score a hundred points, but as soon as their opponents scored 10 5-pointers into the mobile goal and doubled that, it came down to human shooting. So they wanted somebody like 980 or 60/254 to increase chances of winning.

This year, it was either pin or score, or both. (Or score on a moving target, which was understandably difficult.)
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