Not sure how much people have already beat this to death, but one of my ideas for something important for this year (though I am a rookie, so if I'm wrong please correct me) is to make a decision at the final twenty seconds of the match to see if a team should go up into the tower and risk damaging their robot if another team gets up there, or go and try to score at the final moments of the match to get some points while the other team may be letting up their defenses.
Most teams are going to try and go for the tower points there at the end, eventually letting up their defense for the last twenty seconds. If a team has a lot of balls down on their side, and they're ahead of the game at that point in the game, then I think it'd be more efficient for them to go and score those balls at the end in order to get those points.
Not saying that strategy would work every single time, but still it may work every once in a while. It'd have to be a move that'd be decided at the end of a match, but it's just something to consider for the matches you're in.
Just throwing it out there.
