[bduddy]

One thing I have learned from watching FIRST for many years is that the top teams are not just the top teams because they build the best robots. They're the top teams because year after year, most of them understand the game and plan strategies far better than the average FRC team. Considering the depth of misunderstanding of the rules and potential strategies that have been seen on this forum today, I don't see that changing, and I don't think the theoretical ability of less-sophisticated robots to keep up will, by itself, help "underdogs" all that much.