I agree that the "style" of robot will be a major consideration for many alliance selections; a good alliance must complement each other. An alliance of three robots that each do well at every part of this game would be smoked by three specialists that do different things extremely well. An optimum trio would be something like:
- A "chuter" that does a tote stack in auto and scores five stacks of six totes from the cute on the front scoring platform in teleop.
- An RC specialist - pulls two off the step and into the auto zone. In teleop, gets seven RCs littered at the HP station, and scored atop stacks of 6 totes.
- A landfill miner with RC grabber. It just gets two RCs off the step into the auto zone in autonomous. In teleop, it moves the stack of yellow totes to the step then efficiently moves totes from the landfill and step to the back scoring platform.
And, of course, if one of these teams had an HP who could get the three remaining pieces of litter across the field, that would be another 12 point bonus.