[George Nishimura]

I would say picking up from the floor is a must, even if you don't use it often. If you played a strategy that involved tube starvation of one or two specific game pieces, if you had two offensive robots you could 'easily' score two logos while crippling your opponent.

Especially with a robot like 177's, where the difference between picking up from the floor and the feeder a matter of a couple of seconds, there is a case to be made for a tube starvation strategy.

Human players can throw in as many squares and triangles as they like, and hold on to the circles (I chose circle because most often circle is the one team's like to put over an ubertube). Then you would limit the number of circles to the opposition supply. If a defence bot and an offence bot concentrate on pinching circles from the opposition, you could effectively stop the other team from completing logos easily. And if there are no circles in play, get your quickest robot to go to the feeder and finish the logo, while the other offence bot sets up the logos.

Just a thought that I'm sure other people have previously thought of/expressed.