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I asked a Q&A question about this recently, mostly about exploiting the field damage. It's Q878, and to put it simply, no foul. However, if the refs think that the robot that broke the low bar did it strategically or intentionally, a yellow/red card may be called.

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Since predictions that conveniently favor your team's strategy seem popular, here are some of mine:

Short, high goal shooting robots won't be blocked very often early on if they're driving is good because the defender isn't fast enough to get in the way before the shot.

It will be significantly easier for most defending teams to stop a robot from getting to the batter and shooting than to block a robot from shooting from the outerworks.

A robot with a good drivetrain and good drivers will be able to breach in almost every single match, regardless of their alliance.

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Nobody is going to climb the tower.

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No robots will make it to Einstein.

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There will be many broken belts and many tears.

Scaling will not be a factor on Einstein.

A tortuga will cost a major alliance a chance to get to Einstein.

Three robot scaling will be as common as the loch ness monster.

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You will see a large amount of alliances get broken by picking a bad defensive robot as their last pick. These robots will not be able to prevent good low bar robots from getting to the high goal.

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Inter-match setup time will be ages, and the regionals will mostly be behind schedule.

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But that's every year :p
In all seriousness, it seemed like setting up the matches at the week 0 events was actually very quick.

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Uhhhh craziest thing I can see happening.

Everyone is wrong about defensive play this year.

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I predict there will be no catapults on the winning alliance on Einstein, and that that alliance will have a dedicated defensive robot.

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I like this one.

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I wonder how 2056 would feel about that.

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I predict

There will be one rookie team on the championship alliance. All three teams will be from the Silicon Valley Regional, all will be able to tackle the low bar, and two of the teams will be extremely consistent shooters. The third team will be a support robot with the ability to swiftly and effectively collect balls to make sure the shooters have ammunition.

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I predict...

Some team will have figured out how to scale (by having their bumpers above low goal) without the use of any hook/claw/harpoon or winch and somehow levitate from the batter up while barley touching the bar above with some very light extension

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Only robots with both Rhino Modules and swerve drive will make Einstein :p .