[gurellia53]

I have wondered about active intakes for this year's game. I think there's a good comparison of Recycle Rush and Ultimate Ascent. In 2013, you could be extremely successful by being purely a human loaded robot - no floor pickup and no active intake necessary. This year is the same but with fewer game pieces available to the human player. Also, loading from the human player will be slower.

This means that each alliance will likely require at least one robot to play without interaction with the human player. This increases value of landfill robots and recycle container robots which will likely require active intake mechanisms.

Still, pure human loaded robots won't need an active intake if they interface directly with the tote chute.