[Racer26]

I'm really interested to see the value proposition that the elite teams take. Every year, there seems to be a killer design component that the elite figure out early, and the rest struggle to implement after seeing the effectiveness.

see: 2012 stingers, 2011 ramped minibot launchers/minimalist minibots, 2010 ball magnets/hanging on the vertical bars

I have a sneaking suspicion that there will be a divide amongst the elite this year. Some will have 30pt climbers that are effective, and others will have a corner based 20pt climb thats ridiculously fast (like some of the stupidly fast hangers in 2010 [~2s])