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Re: A novel strategy: Always score for your opponents

We noticed that since the matches were low scoring and close, often 1-0 or 2-2, wins didn't help much, and we moved up in the rankings every time we lost. So, we briefly considered an unusual strategy. We would have two of our robots pull into our goals and park to block them, and the third bot would do everything they could to score in the opponents' goals. Since there were almost always penalties, this strategy would give us as many or more seeding points than the winning alliance. We decided at the last minute that we would just play straight up. In retrospect, we should have gone with the original plan.
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