The Not So-Secret Secret End-Game

[aldaeron]

Originally Posted by Racer26

Top teams in 2014 will be capable of 25auto + 6ish cycles of 20 = 150ish pts by themselves, with their two alliance partners just playing defence for them.

With three robots playing zone defense and passing when the ball is in another zone - do you really think six 20 points cycles is reasonable? I foresee a lot of pinning to prevent that (what else are the other bots doing?). Or at least interfering with the super bot when it tosses over the truss. Keep in mind that three passes and a high score is 40 points per cycle so you would only need 3 to outscore the scenario you described. Now the 2 defenders may have to help the 20 point cycling super bot allowing more 40 point passing based cycles.

I do think that the super bots will be able to score quite a bit and probably still win matches by themselves - I just think it will be less of a runaway.