[tindleroot]

Originally Posted by BeardyMentor

I disagree. There are some very simple ways you can contribute to alliance success. Anyone can put some forks on the kit bot and push totes onto a scoring platform. With a small amount of practice and work on autonomous, you could have a robot that pushes a RC into the auto zone, and pushes 5-7 totes from the landfill onto a scoring platform. With the low scores during qualification matches, a possible 10-15 points extra would be welcome to almost everyone.

What everyone seems to be confusing with there being no easy task is that going beyond your limits and failing gets you very little benefit this year.

Noodle pushing is another "easy" task that an alliance partner can do. Our third alliance partner at the Kokomo event spent the majority of the matches pushing opponents' noodles into our landfill, swinging the score over 25 points in our favor most of the time.