how effective are the herders/dumpers?

[Kevin Ray]

Originally Posted by Scott358

From the experience of having visited one regional, and participated in 2, I've seen dumpers do pretty well in qualifying rounds, when there's a diverse mix of experience on the field.

Once the playoffs start, from what I've seen, you had better have 2 shooters.
This was a big point in our last regional, as 329 was an awesome dumper, but we choose a shooter with our first pick (who happened to be an awesome shooter).

Have there been any regional winning alliances with 2 dumpers (who only dump) and 1 shooter? Or perhaps even 3 dumpers?

Having been on the receiving end of a good old fashioned spanking in the 5th (yes, fifth) match of the finals, we know only too well how important shooters are in the finals. Scott358 is correct in that you can only go so far with a dumper (we dumped 9/10 times in auto). Eventually you have to have the 3pt scorers. That is why we had to select two shooters for the alliance. We were just plain lucky to get 1468 as the third choice--thank goodness we had zero turn around time between the last match and selections, other teams passed them by.


BTW 358--you have an incredible team. You did a miraculous rebuild in three hours on Thursday eve.and were rewarded with a regional championship for your efforts. Congratulations