[Bob Steele]

There are games within games in this competition.
We have qualifications, which weighs in coopertition to decide on alliance captains. Do Can Burglers have a real advantage here? probably not... although in a positive way, they can provide more than 3 RC's to an alliance and increase the average scores that way if the extra containers can be utilized by the stacker/scorers on their alliance.

We have quarter finals.... Here the score is everything... A great can burgler who is not an alliance captain can get stung here... If the can burgler is the best in the world ... the team can still get stung by a pick by a great coop bot that does not score effectively without coop. Can burglary is effective here but it can only affect 2 of the other alliances by keeping cans away from them it will add little to the alliance's chances of making it out of quarters. It can be a way for a team to gain extra points by having more than 3 RC's but you still need robots capable of putting up big points to get out of quarters.
In my opinion, Quarters are the most difficult issue of getting to the Finals.

Semi's Here is where Can Burglary can make a huge difference by both adding RC's to your own alliance and taking them away from another alliance. You get to play all of the other semi alliances so you can reduce everyone's scores....

Finals.... no need to analyze this... everyone has.
Just don't think that by having a great FINALS strategy that you will get out of quarters.


This is a complex game. I personally think that we may actually see some of the 4th picks being used in quarters... where points are KING..... with semi and finals alliances being a different arrangement.

Think about it this way... the three best can burglers in the world get on the same alliance ( I know it would not happen) They will NOT get out of quarters unless they have the other skills...