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Originally Posted by LeelandS
Personally, yes. I would rather see 70% of robots try to make 3 pointers and only 15% make it. Because the 55% now have something to improve upon. And, in a nice, not necessarily perfect world, many of them would be working hard to become reliable shooters.
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I think you're missing a bit behind their (assumed) intentions.
Lets talk about the team that due to current skills, resources, etc. can't effectively score no matter how hard they try. They can work hard, improve these skills, get resources, yada yada, and in the long run become much more capable. However, this can take seasons.
In the mean time, they can develop other skills (the intangible "how to win an event", or being competitive) by making simple, support robots. The team with less skills and resources can easily make these support robots.
As the team improves, they will some day flip a switch and decide to aim higher; and I'm darn sure they'll be more prepared to be a top tier team (in both robot design and competitive execution) than the team who spent the same amount of time always aiming to be a top robot.
Not only does it work out better for the team, it works out better for the other teams. It's incredibly depressing picking an alliance where your choice for a 3rd is more or less, "Well we can pick the team that reliably can't really do anything, or the other team that did something once". It'd be nice to round out every alliance at every regionals with robots that can provide meaningful capability.
I can't speak for 4334's intentions, but I doubt their five year plan involves being a support bot for every season.