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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad
I want to point out that with the introduction of the 4th robot the last 2 years, even though those teams never entered the field, they did serve important functions. Those teams should feel that they had an equal part in the alliances' successes.
In 2014, taking 5136 limited the availability of goalie bots for other teams and gave us the back up for 1114 and an additional option to run a different mix for the autonomous routine.
In 2015, we honestly thought that 5012 would be playing in the Einstein semis and finals and that 1671 would be sitting out those rounds. The games played out differently so that we didn't use 5012. In addition, having 5012 available mooted 1114/148's threat to use their harpoon grabbers.
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To add: having a backup robot on Einstein is like having bench players in baseball: you may not use them, but they aren't useless. they could play specialty roles (a really good defensive sub, or a super fast guy), or they could come in for a broken robot/injured player and keep the alliance's/team's hopes of winning alive