[commodoredl]

In our elimination matches, we went with a standard one robot in each zone setup for almost all cases. The alliance of 217, 1551 and 174 who won the championship, would start out one in each zone, then after 217 shot their balls in autonomous, 174 and 217 would switch places, allowing 217 to continue racking up points. The main strategy to emerge as successful was one strong midfielder with good abilities deflecting balls, an efficient scorer, and a defensive robot to assist the midfielder and slow down the opposition. It also helped to have a hanging robot in the alliance to save a close game at the end.
To defeat 217, 1551, and 174, we switched our formation to one offense and two midfielders, allowing us to box out 1551 and deny 217 balls long enough for us to even the score.