Who are your top team picks this year?

[Jack Jones]

Originally Posted by The Subway

The best way to defend against the triplets is to keep pounding them from the sides and front and eventually their "unbreakable" treads will break immobilizing them the rest of the match. I noticed this a few times at GLR, twice in particular during the finals matches. Also they rely on sweet spots during auto, block the sweet spot they cant score with out readjusting. But other than that very good robots, with great scoring capabilities

But just FYI.

^tisk tisk

The way to beat the triplets is three fold.

First - divide and conquer - don't let one of them seed higher than third. (How? read on...)

Second - match them one-on-one in auto mode - there will be many who get their stuff together enough to do that. Others will cut them off before they shoot.

Third - starve them - once they've shot their load their opponents foolishly let them back to face the HP. Keep a bot in front of them. They can't load from the top. They can't shoot what they don't have.

A fourth will have to wait for next year. And that's to ban the practice. It can only lead to escalation where GM, FORD, and others form multi-teams. The little guys will be shut out. The US auto companies should not mind the ban; TOYOTA has joined the fray.