[Skanker]

I disagree (about the multi-purpose thing). It may be a little tougher to play the game, having multiple abilities. BUT being versatile is a huge advantage. f

or example: say a team gets two robots that can both score balls, and that's all they can do (remember during the seeding rounds, team setup is pretty random). They can score as many balls as they want, but they can only score a max of 20 points (2 robots in the end zone).

Okay, MAYBE they can manage to bump a goal across the line to their side... keep in mind that the goal now weighs in excess of 180 lbs (close to 200), and the robot only weighs 130 MAX. The robot will need to exert a signifigant (but not hard to achieve) amount of force on the goal. Ramming the goal like this is likely to cause damage to the robot (the goal exerts force right back).

Say, maybe the other team has a bot that can grab goals (regardless of what else it can do). it can mozy right on into the scoring zone and take the goal right out. the ramming of robots will be powerless to stop the goal mover.

Now, it's too bad our team chose to focus on only one thing.