If you're going to make such a drastic change on a Thursday, I would definitely want to have already built one so you don't have to do nearly as much tweaking at competition.
Also, if you're going to tune for the autonomous container grab, you should consider:
- There will likely be an arms race for the cans in many championships matches; we already saw it at finals in Dallas in week 1 - build strong!
- If you add a quick drive to the auto zone (presuming you don't get caught in a tug-of-war), you may score or contribute to an 8 point auto container set for each match
- Once you get the cans, you would be far more attractive as an alliance partner if you can also take care of getting noodles in the cans and stacking them high, or at least delivering them to your alliance partners.