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Originally Posted by 1075guy
My thinking here is 1114 + 469 pairing up for elims makes their third bot almost completely irrelevant. Their third bot will be a bot that can start in the offensive zone, so 1114 can run their far zone auto, and then traverse the two bumps to go play (mostly irrelevant) defense. As much as I'd love to be that team, theres a limited amount of glory there. Upsetting a hypothetical 1114+469 alliance on the other hand, now THAT would stick in the minds of everyone who sees it. Even for one match. I am still blown away by SF1.1 at GTR, 2949/1305/1404 brought the thunder big time, and were beat 15-11 with 1114 and 1547 up for 4.
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IMO this would be a mistake if 1114 and 469 got together and decided to play this way. I think there are two ways to go with that alliance. One way would be to go with a fast striker like 830 or 171 and try to clean up anything missed by 1114 and 469. You don't care how many they score because you can score more. Another way to go would be to get a robot with a strong drivetrain and decent kicker like 2041 and try to starve the opponent of balls entirely (this strategy may also work with a striker like listed above). If the opponents defender is trying to clear balls 2041 would stay in the near zone and push them around, while 1114 moves every ball they can get to forward into their near zone. If the defender can't clear balls effectively (probably a bad strategy by the opponents) 2041 could move back to the midzone and help 1114 move balls forward.
Having said all that, both the 1114 and 469 scouts and strategists are some of, if not the, best there are. If they pair up, they will already have a plan (actually a few probably) for how they would like to play and who fits that strategy.
EDIT: Thought of more I wanted to say here. Every alliance in every recent game is made up of 3 robots. The competition at the Championship is at a high enough level that even two impressive robots like 1114 and 469 will need the third robot if they want to win a championship. Whoever this third robot is they will certainly be remembered as a World Champion. A well respected mentor of a recent Championship team said that the Championship could have been won by even if they fielded a refrigerator, but I bet most CD members could tell you who the third member of the 1114-217 alliance was.