2015 Champs Predictions

[BrendanB]

Originally Posted by MaGiC_PiKaChU

the maximum scoring potential with 3 RCs, without upside-down totes, is 240 points.

An average alliance that puts up 5 capped stacks can beat this eveytime, so getting all RCs means victory in finals

True but if you can't assemble those stacks all of those RCs are useless. Believe me our alliance of 237, 501, and 3467 made away with 3-4 RCs in autonomous during the quarter finals and semi finals at NEDCMP and didn't put up scores high enough to beat an alliance with only three. Another alliance at NE champs of 88, 125, and 246 had even faster can arms and didn't make it out of the quarter finals.

Not to mention even if you can drop your arms faster than your opponents it doesn't mean they can't grab on before you drive away and snatch them away from you. We saw that a few times when a team who was fast but didn't have a good grip on the cans was beat out because another team who was slower caught on with a more secure mechanism.

On Einstein where all of the teams are high caliber putting up 2-3+ stacks each the RCs are very valuable and we'll know the winner of the match in the first 2 seconds if someone gets more than two off of the step. I will predict that in several divisions the team with the fastest arms won't make it out of the division and it won't be your ticket to Einstein if you walk in with the fastest.