I'm going to start calling these "3rd pick bots". Robots like 4334, and several teams who sat under the towers and redirected balls in 2010 (Besides 469...they dont count

) are designed to be 3rd robots, and aid both their allies. Speaking from experience we built one in 2010, and were told later that had we not gotten picked by our friends in #4, #1 would have picked us and we could have won our first regional.
Historically you never really need more than 2 offensive scorers, so teams who know they can't build a competetive scorer should all DEFFINITLY attempt this. Especially rookies. You can next to guarentee getting picked. I think matches in any game would be much more exiting with different types of robots, instead of watching 6 scorers go at it, and struggle from lack of game pieces. As long as we dont get games like 2011, where there isnt much of an option for one.