Prediction: Veterans take off the gloves in Week 3

[Lil' Lavery]

Originally Posted by Cory

Not reallly... if you don't have ramps, you're screwed.

All an opposing alliance has to do to shut down 2 great scorers is place one ringer on the middle spider leg on each side of the rack, and all you can score is a row of 3, max. If you start to go for the top or bottom, they do the same thing.

The rest of the 2 minutes the other two robots will bash the heck out of anyone who looks like they can score, and then will get on their ramps at the end.

If you don't have equal or better ramps, you're toast, no matter how many tubes you can score.

In theory that sounds nice, but it doesn't always work out. 293, 75, and 203 won Chesapeake with a total of 0 bonus points during the entire elimination matches. I have a feeling that the winning alliance at championship will have 3 scoring machines (at least 2 of which can hit all 3 levels at ease, and 1+ that can remove spoilers) and a at least one bot capable of consistently getting 2 bots above 12".