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Originally Posted by HarveyAce
If someone built a robot to specifically pick up tubes for their teammates and bring them back for them, and it was fast, maneuverable, and had a solid grip on the tubes, would they be a pick for an alliance in the elimination rounds?
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It's a risky move.
Yes, you may get picked, or you may not get picked. You might be the Second pick by the #1 Seed, or you could be First pick of the #7 - no one knows yet.
The issue with building a dedicated runner that cannot score tubes is that in the Qualification Matches you rely on someone to score for you. There may be a match where you can run all the tubes you want, but if no one can score them, you won't get points. In a situation like this, you can't really control your own seeding, because you can't necessarily win matches for yourself.
My personal opinion is that any robot with a decent gripper/grabber/claw, a reliable drive train, and a decent drive team can be a good Fetcher/Runner - so if you build a decent scoring robot with those traits, and then prove than you're a decent runner you can become double the threat, and score when no one is there to score for you.