[avanboekel]

While reading the OP, I immediately thought of team 2781 (we played with and against them at Midwest). They weren't able to do much, but what they could do, they did really well.

Here is what they would do pretty much every match:
1) During autonomous, they drive forward to the fender and drop both of their balls into the bottom basket. 8 points guaranteed every match.
2) Play defense. They weren't able to pick up basketballs from the ground, but that didn't stop them from helping out their alliance during tele-op. They played solid defense.
3) Bridge balance. This, again, is something they could do very well. They co-op balanced in 8 of their 11 matches.

They ended up 6-5 with a qualification score of 28. This was enough to put them in the 7 spot, guaranteeing them a spot in eliminations. After all was said and done, they ended up as the 4th alliance captain, and picked us and 2709.

We ended up winning in the quarterfinals, 45-15, and 36-14. Though, we ended up losing to 16, 148, and 2022 in the semifinals (gave them a couple of good matches).

Long story short, you don't have to do everything to be competitive in FRC. As long as you can do 1 or 2 things very well, you can be fairly competitive.