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Originally Posted by Billfred
This screw-the-fuel strategy is bold, and may not reap full dividends in quals, but I could see it being a very high draft pick assuming the alliance captains are paying any kind of attention.
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Here's the nuance for 'high draft picks' which makes specializing in GEARs so risky, IMO
Being mediocre at GEARS from either alliance station spot next to the BOILER puts any other-wise great GEAR alliance captain at risk of being declined in elims at the higher levels of play.
If there is a superb FUEL robot at an event, that team is likely best in the first draft pick spot or as captain.
Any GEAR bot that is superb under defense is a lock for getting picked by the 7th or 8th seed, as a 2nd pick, regardless of whether it's a Regional or IFI. The 1st seeded alliance is almost assuredly getting knocked off in QF if the best GEAR bot is the 2nd pick for the 8th seed. Yet for SF's and beyond, they may be likely to fall to a more well-rounded alliance that is better at FUEL.
Yet a great FUEL bot that struggles from the alliance station furthest from the boiler as a 2nd pick is likely to be passed over for a good defense robot.
Decision, decisions...