Prediction: Veterans take off the gloves in Week 3

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

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".

I think you're misreading what I said.

If you're on an alliance that has two robots that can score well, but has no ramps, or ramps that don't work very well, you will almost always lose to an alliance that has one solid scoring robot, good defenders, and a good ramp bot.

It doesn't matter how good the tube scoring bots are. Two robots bashing the heck out of both will be able to hold an alliance to less than 60 tube points. At which point it comes down to the ramps, in which case the first alliance loses.