What is the best strategy

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Originally Posted by hillale

From what I've seen, what seemed to work best is two robots with a center goal autonomous and one that could consistently put 10 balls in the corner. One of the shooters would stay as the back bot and load up on balls while the other 2 played defense, then line up and plant themselves so that it would be hard to move them just before their offensive period begins. Then when the 3rd period begins, they can just empty 10-15 balls in the center goal, if they hadn't already won the match by their autonomous period.

I was going to say something just like that, and then add that that's what my alliance did at Milwaukee, and then I saw your signature, and realized you're from Winnovation. One thing I would like to add about that strategy: The non-shooting robot is almost better off not pouring its balls into the corner goal and playing a defensive autonomous mode. That way, since the alliance plans on winning the autonomous mode anyway, the defensive robot is on the defensive side of the field from the start. It can play defense immediately, which may be more important than the 10 balls it could have scored in autonomous. If the two other robots are good enough shooters (like 111 and 1625 at Milwaukee) then it almost doesn't even matter if the defensive robot scores. I'm curious to see if this strategy has been employed at regionals other than Wisconsin.