- How much will the average scores increase over the course of the season?
Depends. If you have scoring machines coupled with an amazing defense, and good throwers, then it's going to be high to low. Otherwise, it'll depend on the robots.

- How effective will defense be?
Personally, not very much. I say it depends on the robots you go against. Elevators will be easy to block, while arms may be harder.

- Will alliances use feeder bots & hangers, or will it be every team for itself?
It all depends on the strategy of the alliances. Whatever works, but in order to have feederbots, you'll need good throwers that can get the tubes half way across the field, and feederbots that can get the tubes off the ground quickly.

- Will tubes be fed through the slot or thrown?
If teams have good throwers, who can accurately throw the tubes across the field, then throwing is what they want. Feeding is only viable if you have a robot that can easily get fed from the feeder and get out of the feeding area, and across the field safely.

- What will dominate - Grippers or Roller Claws? Rotating arms or Elevators?
All will be good. Elevators are easy to get up to the maximum height, but can be inaccurate and must be next to the pegs to score. Rotating arms (like the one we use), can score on the pegs from OUTSIDE the scoring zone, which is useful if being blocked, and can throw tubes far ahead of them if they are blocked, so that a teammate can get it. Arms would have to be accurate, and fast to move, though. (Which ours is)

- Will floor loading be as important as many think?
Like I said before, if an alliance has good throwers, then robots need to be ready to get tubes anywhere, from ANY position. This includes leaning up against a wall.

- Will the minibots define the winners, or will their influence decrease as more teams get them working?
Early on when the minibots are still in development, they could make or break a match. Later on when all teams have seen the other minibots, they will be just a scoring factor, that everyone has.

- How will minibots develop? Will they all be similar by Championship?
I think that by the championships, everybody will have a similar method of traveling up the pole. I've already seen 4 teams use our method, but they probably didn't steal it.

- How would you like to see the game played?
I would like to see the matches played with different strategies in the beginning, but having teams mix their strategies together in the elimination rounds.