[ThirteenOfTwo]

I voted one, not because I think that ALL teams will only cross once, but because I think that everyone vastly overestimates the number of times the center will be crossed.

Consider the different roles of robots on an alliance.

Let's say you want to have a defensive robot: well, the defensive robot is going to want to play defense the whole match unless something goes seriously wrong with the offense, so you only need to cross once (to get to the other side of the field and play defense) before you balance.

Now, you probably want your most accurate scorer to spend most of its time, you know, scoring. Which means cutting transit time to a minimum... which means not crossing the bump. For maximum scoring, your best shooter should probably never cross the bump until balancing.

Of course, someone may need to go break a starvation strategy, feed the scoring robot, or play some defense, so maybe one robot per alliance actually needs to cross the midfield a few times. But certainly not all three will be crossing the field with any amount of regularity, or you're probably screwed.