[audietron]

I would agree with you in some cases, this game is all about consistency, so there will be predictability. I will tell you that after seeing 3130 in a practice match at Northern Lights, I knew they were going to be hard to beat. After Wisconsin we focused on getting our system to work. We knew we could not be a good landfill robot without some major modifications. So we improved our feed station loading full well knowing that we could not work with wave with the modifications. This meant we had to focus on being the finalists which worked out nicely.
The pit scouting is useful for knowing about plans and what teams prefer to do for a match. We don't need a super extensive amount of strategy but I would still say it is just as important as ever. Teams need to know where they should be and go and not go. The complete flow of each match needs to be known to keep a consistant average if a team is not able to score more than 2 complete stacks. Coop is very important in this case to keep that average up.

We are happy with where we ended up and who we ended up with. I would definitely say that the average robot at North Star has increased in complexity and capabilities from previous years. We are incredibly excited that 5576 ended up our alliance captain and we can not wait to compete with an improved robot at worlds.