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View Poll Results: How important is it to collect loose balls from the playing surface?
Not important -- clearly irrelevant 5 4.20%
Somewhat important 25 21.01%
Very important 46 38.66%
Critical factor -- you have to be able to collect loose balls 36 30.25%
What? I thought this was about tetras? 7 5.88%
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Re: Loose Balls

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Originally Posted by Kevin Sevcik
The way I see it is that if your entire alliance depends on balls from the human players, then you've pretty much resigned yourself to playing catch up. Every ball you have in your player station is a point the other team has scored on you, after all. If the other alliance exclusively shoots three pointers, then the best you can do is match their points. Hrm. I should make a note of this if we're against an alliance than can't scoop. Should just concentrate on hitting every 3 we fire and starving them....
Well good luck with that strategy ...

We're thinking with the defensive interaction allowed this year and all the other factors feeding into a consistent aiming and firing mechanism it won't be a simple task to routinely make those 3 pointers ...
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