[Canon reeves]

My money is on the smart team, with defense, and knowing the opponents weaknesses, a smart team could get inside their head. Cause them to make simple mistakes the lead to wasted time or penalties. I know first hand the advantage of this, our robot could only catch really well and score in the low goal, we still had the 3rd highest teleoperated score, and we were dead over half the time. This was largely because of smart driving and strategy, we used strategy mats, we looked at our opponents weaknesses and we could outsmart their drivers and put them in a situation causing them to make a split second decision, one way they get a penalty, the other, they don't, but it seems more appealing to get the penalty to any driver who doesn't know the rules. We never forced any penalties, we just made it easier for other people. A driving robot can easily make it into elimns if they drive competitively and know the rules! While a good robot can preform, it is capped by their preforming ability. Just my 2.5 cents.