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Originally Posted by Skyehawk
I've been struggling with this as well, container bots have what I would like to call ''the perfect niche'' but long ago my team accepted the reality that in order to win regionals you needed to be the scoring team. With defensive menuvers nullified this year d the introduction of Qualification Average being a scoring not is more important than ever. You all have to be able to hold your own. And while the highest scoring natchs might include a container not there is no guarantee that every match will be a perfect match-up for you. The QA needs to be kept up if you are planning on picking, and I don't see container bots managing to do that.
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It really depends on your team's capabilities and goals, and the makeup of your regional. If you can build a bot that can carry multiple totes and a recycle bin all at once and stack them quickly, then congrats. You're in or near the 254/1114/etc. level of design and building. Your bot can address most of the game challenges and you should do well if everything works fast enough.
If your capabilities limit you to a single tote + bin or multi-tote only robot, then you have to look at your goals and the make up of your regionals. We're figuring on seeing a fair number of bin-only or super multi-tote+bin robots, so we're looking at being a really good multi-tote robot in a supporting role, and falling back to a 2-crate+bin robot if the multi-tote prototyping doesn't pan out.