With the number of quality FCS robots available across the divisions, it would seem to be important for alliances to have "noodle hat"s, i.e. shot blockers available in Quals. Letting even a modest FCS have full reign in a Qual is a prescription for a loss for the non-FCS equipped side.
So, the prescription is to have a "noodle hat" blocker guy available on the opposite side. A recent thread on YMTC suggests that on again/off again application of "noodle hat"s is *probably* against the rules, so any bot with aspirations of helping their alliances through Quals should be inspected __with__ their "noodle hat" as an "additional mechanism", making weight accordingly.
Of course, all you folks out there with blockers already available, "never mind"!
Your alliance partners will love you if you can shut down an opposing FCS, that's for sure!
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