The Chokehold Strategy

[Andy Grady]

First of all, I pose this question to Moe...would you rather get lower qp's and have a fully functional robot in the elims or would you rather have one of the arms of your robot bashed into little bits and pieces, thus hindering your ability to compete well in the elimination matches? (and I don't care how much you do or don't show off your strategy, with a robot like that, you are gonna get picked and used!)

I see the chokehold strategy as just that, a viable strategy that forces other teams to have to produce points in order to get higher QP's. The best teams in NJ were able to do all the scoring quite easily (i.e. team 95). Fact of the matter is, if you try the chokehold strategy, your not exactly doing yourself any favors because your killing your own QP's anyhow, in which case if the oponent is smart and just pushes a goal into the goal zone and parks it themselves they will get either 60 or 0...60 if they team applying the chokehold is smart and realizes that they aren't doing themselves any favors by also taking a 0 in QP's, 0 if they aren't very bright, or have absolutely no hopes of seeding high enough or even getting picked (Because a maneuver like that wouldn't rank high on the team inteligence scale, thus I probably wouldn't want to pick them personally). So in a nutshell, yes it is a viable strategy, but it really isn't the best strategy for sucess in this game.
Have fun,
Andy Grady