[IronicDeadBird]

Wow I did not expect those results... Lets get a fire storm going I said "No."
There is a lot to work with this year when it comes to being competitive. I just don't think you need something like an el toro (it helps) when something like a funnel and smart driving will do the same. There is a lot of room for variety when it comes to design this year and maybe somewhere some group of teams are talking and managed to decide that instead of making one active intake mechanism they have several intake mechanisms that are passive.
One of my original ideas for a robot was basically a triangle that drives into a cluster of totes. The triangle forces the totes towards a mechanism that would pick it up and stack it inside and ontop of the robot and then the other side of the triangle with nothing on it would spit the stacks out.
Re-reading this though I can see that "active intake" might need to be defined.