[IndySam]

History shows us that few teams will be able to effectively quickly score on the top pegs at regionals especially in week one. So strategy will constantly evolve as always. Most matches will have only one or even no effective top peg scorer that can also pick up from the floor. In that case a fetcher would be useless. But that same useless fetcher will be scouted by the top teams and can become very valuable as the second pick for eliminations.

A good early regional finals alliance might consist of one Scorer and one feeder working together with a third robot running defense or interference.

The scorer gets their own tubes and also places the tubes provided by the fetcher.

Defensive robot is either providing picks for the scorer/fetchers or playing defense against other alliance.

Having said all that, I never want to design a robot that's goal is to be that second pick.