[apples000]

This isn't great. Our team has made what we consider to be a pretty great ball pick up device. If the ball touches our front bumper, we "own it". Tonight, our best driver couldn't pick up the ball with a single robot (poorly driven by me) bulldozing the ball out of the way. At all. After 30 minutes of driving. The game will be won by a single team whose strategy involves no contact (of the ball) with the floor.

<slightly negative prediction>
We'll see the return of "if you don't hit our game piece, we won't hit yours" and the horrible tensions between teams it creates.
</slightly negative prediction>