Minibot Strategy & Etiquette

[jamie_1930]

When I was deciding this with our alliances before matches 90 percent of the time it came down to who had the most reliable mini-bot. If there is tie breaker that needs to be made it would come down to speed, but that never happened to me. However for the other 10 percent I had a soft spot for teams trying to prove themselves and I would sometimes take out our minibot so that someone else could show theirs off, be careful with this though because you should only do this when you are certain you'll win a match. I hope this helps a little, just remember that more often than not reliability is what matters. Just because a team says their bot can make it up in .001 seconds doesn't mean it will make it up.

[BrendanB]

We had a few matches with such a predicament. In two of those our opponents were really tough so we knew we had to get 1-2 so I went by who had the fastest inlcluding deployment as well as going by how many times it has gone up or failed. We then would tell the third robot to stay on guard as a backup deploy which was needed a few times with minibots coming loose or robots dying. In situations where we seemed to have an easier win if everything went well I would keep the strongest tube man on the rack for the entire game while the other two were on the poles. I used this also when times were really close and reliability was close too.

It is tedious in some cases but it requires a lot of patience and respect for your partners when figuring out who gets the towers.