[thefro526]

This is an interesting question.

Logo-motion is the First game since 2008 where Teams are pretty much allowed to expand beyond the bumper zone without restrictions other than a maximum expansion Distance. I would venture to say that the majority of teams are compromised of students that only have experience with 2009 and on (those who don't would've had to have been Freshmen in HS in 2008) and then there are hundreds of teams that have been born since 2008. It'll be interesting to see how well these teams build robots and if they understand the abuse that a mechanism will take if it leaves the bumper zone.

Well-Structured and mentored Veteran teams, I'm sure, will have few issues with machine robustness as many of them existed in the "Pre-Bumper Era" and should remember how to build a robot to take abuse. Personally, 816's robot was designed in such a way that all mechanisms that leave the bumper zone are protected while not in the safe zones, and the few other Veteran Machines I've seen thus far seem to be built with the same idea in mind.