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Originally Posted by Karthik
At the regional level, I saw very few (if any) robots who had reliable Canburglars, but didn't have other elimination worthy functions. Most teams that I saw who were picked for Canburgling, would have been picked otherwise for their stacking/capping abilities. As such it's hard to evaluate the claim.
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Of all the events that I followed closely, I think 1305 and 4976 are the only one to really fit the high pick number for a robot that only did cans. Third overall picks at North Bay and Windsor.
Cangrabers for a first pick are very niche like. High seeds don't want them because they can cap their own stacks, even low seeds it's a bit scary as a capper doesn't do too well with no totes to score, but you don't want to solo totes either.
We (4476) also were a "virtually" can only robot, but were selected much lower (due to less reliability seen with our team as a whole) as 6th overall pick and 7th alliance captain respectively. I feel like this would be more typical of alliances looking to go deep.
2848 was a can only robot as well and think they ended in similar positions, lower seed quarterfinalists. They were reasonably reliable at getting 1+ out of the 4.
So not sure a reliable can grab is enough.