Elimination Matches Strategy

Coming off of our week 3 District even win I would like to congratulate our alliance partners 4476 and 781, as well as the event Finalists 1325, 4903 and 7664! One thing that you may have noticed upon entering the elimination rounds was that we changed our match strategy. In qualification matches we attempted to complete a rocket to gain an extra ranking point. However, in the elimination rounds we changed our strategy to be geared towards placing hatches on half of the field,  while our alliance partner 4476, placed cargo on the other side of the field. At approximately half way through the match, we switched sides of the field, so that 4476 could place cargo on the other half of the field, while we placed more hatches, and eventually cargo. We went with this strategy because upon entering elimination matches we realized that to reduce cycle times we should focus on the cargo ship. This allowed us to maximize our score and to win our first event in the 2019 season!