Do you agree?

[Sharkbyte]

Why an effective autonomus is good:

at milwaukee, we were against Wildstang and another really good shooter. One time the other alliance got so many in the center goal during autonomus that the can was full, and there were still balls jammed up the tube.

Needles to say we lost, even after we lost to wildstang in Chicago too

P.S. I now have nightmares about tie dye

[robochick1319]

Stopping a robot from scoring 80 pts. is an excellent game strategy, if you have someone on your alliance who can score. We did a lot of blocking this year and honestly it was the deciding factor in a lot of matches.

Even if your losing and you don't have a good shooter, blocking is good because it creates a reputation for yourself. Even if you lose 80-0 people can say "Wow, look at ______, they really tried and they'll never give up" which can lead to a good rep and that can do wonders for you.

[Daniel_LaFleur]

Originally Posted by DaveA412

stopping a bot from scoring 80 points is jut as good as scoring 80 points?

Truthfully, it depends on the capabilities of your robot, your alliance robots and his alliance robots.

If you believe you can out shoot/score your opponents then then stopping them from scoring is counterproductive.

If [with all the stars aligned and karma smiling sweetly on you] your alliance can only hope to score 30 points then blocking them is just as good.

So, in answer to your question, I'll go with a definate maybe

[Martinez]

Yes. Then rely on your allies to score the rest of the point you need.

[Tim Delles]

From what I have seen, their are very few combination of robots that can score 80 points together. Everyone by now has gone to regionals, ask yourself how many times did you score over 80 points.

at FLR we (as an alliance) did it 5 times out of our 20 matches at FLR (25%)

at GTR we (as an alliance) did it twice (if i remember correctly) out of 15 matches at GTR (13%)

These are extremely low percentages, and i know for most of the other teams at both of the regionals these precentages are even lower.

Now given you have the right alliance you could score 80 points but from what I have seen it is nearly never done in qualifications, let alone finals.

edit:// I'm only using my team because we were mainly in the high scoring matches and I also know the regionals that i personally attended the best.

[DaveA412]

i thought about this last night how i agreed with my teamate that 3 good shooters is the best alliance and irealized i was totally wrong to agree i think its only the 3rd best line up
2 good shooters and a defender will level the playing field with teh 3 shooters right away so then its 2 shooters against two shooters not counting if the defender can block more tehn robot at times which will give the 2 shooters and edge

2 defenders and a shooter does the same thing plus im pretty sure 2 solid defenders could block all three robots at times as i have seen teams push 2 times at once this is counting the fact that the 3 shooters some might be loaded by the human player and have to drop back to reload and then your team again gets the edge so i take back the 3 good shooters being the best aliance if u have 2 shooters or 1 shooter that is just as good as the other shooters i think it could be a nice match up just my 2 cents