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Has anyone around the country tried or considered pulling/pushing the bi-goal or tri-goal "system" into their own end zone during elimination rounds? Granted, there are a million what-ifs (such as # balls in the goals, can the opponent get to their end zone while holding onto the goals, etc.) but it seems like a solid strategy.

Imagine, you find yourself in the finals against the most phenomenal 3 goal robot known to man teamed with a bulldozer 'bot. The crowd awed as this duo went undefeated in the quarters and semis by taking hold of the 3 goals and crawling them into the scoring zone while the best pusher 'bots were unsuccessful at trying to push them back up Mount Everest. Fortunately and unfortunately, you have the sparse crowd madly cheering for you because you are the biggest underdog that the world has ever known. But then the well-mentored future rocket scientist comes up with the strategy that the entire team begins to laugh at but then realizes that it just may be crazy enough to work. Her idea is to sneak around the tri-goal system and push the entire system into your end zone while blocking the sneaky little mini-me-bots (of course, named Minnie-me and Mickey-me) of the 3 goal dominators. You put the plan into action and the crowd starts to get up to leave with about 30 seconds left to go when a tremendous gasp that sucks the Epcot Ball from its pedestal and knocks all of the refs off their feet. The mumbling begins. "They're going to push everything into their own end zone!" "Wow, the bulldozer 'bot can't help!" "They'll win anyway because they have two balls in the goal and they have their Mickey-bot & Minnie-bot ... let's go to Epcot ... this thing's over." "Wait, they're blocking Mickey & Minnie." The buzzer sounds and you win the first match 30 to 2." Within 30 seconds, the buzz has made it back to the pits; everyone is running out the pit tents and into the stands to see if Goliath will fall. You look up in the stands to find that the previously sparse crowd of Disney clean-up personnel is now a standing room only stadium. As you catch your breath, you realize that your stomach that you thought was at full butterfly-capacity 4 minutes ago has just found a way to triple that number. What do you do now?
 


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