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Originally Posted by BJC
It depends on your position. If you have a chance of seeding high play to win seeding points. If you don't have a chance at this, play to show off your robot so you will be picked for elims. Either way, the goal is to ultimatly, win so teams have to do their best with what their given.
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If you seriously have the ability to stop 469 where other teams do not, I think other teams' scouts will notice even if you don't shoot yourself in the foot ranking wise.
I used to subscribe to the "show off your robot and press your luck" strategy, then my team went from 17th to 7th at WPI with 5 carefully calculated matches. We ended up conceding 2 matches versus who would end up being the #1 seed, blocking our own goals in the second of those matches, which helped us keep our ranking up. You can turn any schedule into a positive schedule if you're smart and have a versatile robot.
Despite only playing incidental defense, smart scouts did notice my team and saw that we had the potential to play smart and aggressive defense rather than simple pinning and ramming.