[BariSaxGuy]

One problem that I saw this year was that some teams didn't do anything, yet were told to just stay out of the way. In Kansas City one alliance had two Chute fed robots and one that could have used the landfill, but didn't do anything. Our alliance, partly due to lack of scouting knowledge, had three that used the landfill. A lot of those second-pick teams got lucky and had a high average from being on good alliances during qualifications. In 2014, we had a bot that was almost too light, and got pushed around, but we beat the 5th seeded alliance when the other two robots on our alliance were broken. So I really don't see a difference, with defense and no defense, teams just need to have effective designs that other people like to get picked.