[waialua359]

Originally Posted by Norman J

I can definitely see 1114 seeding #1 on Curie and picking 469. While I am very pleased with your Archimedes prediction , I am not personally so confident of our ability to pull that one off. Archimedes is such a top heavy division that 25 picking us is as far from certain as you can get.

I do know that whichever 2 powerhouses team up on Archimedes, they will pick a strong defense bot, in anticipation of that Curie team. The defense bot will have to hold off 1114 to starve 469's loop. Kind of a tall order. So any good defense robot's out there on Archimedes, show the scouts of the powerhouses what you can do!

I respectfully differ in the opinion of the 3rd bot. I think the 3rd bot will exclusively be the striker......one that can score every ball that comes to the home zone.

After autonomous is over, the team that plays back will effectively have already kicked all 3 balls over and proceed to move balls out of the loop that the opposing alliance kicked into their far zone.
Then, the robot joins the current midfielder and the two powerhouse midfielders ensure (as much as possible) in getting balls that they score back to the strong striker in the front. It would be two on one vs. 1114 who will play the midfield while 469 loops balls (assuming that 469-1114 alliance occurs).

With this strategy, no one is playing defense.
The only way to beat a 469 alliance is to outscore them. There is no other way.