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Originally Posted by Citrus Dad

I suspect that the GDC may have thought that building stacks would take more teamwork, and didn't anticipate the success of individual teams in solving the problem. That there was such a wide disparity in the ability to build multiple stacks may illustrate how technically difficult the problem was. The solution by the GDC might have been to give bonus capping points if a stacked was capped by a different team.

That's actually a very good point. It would alter how alliance selections happened. It would have changed our whole robot design probably. We were one of the most successful short robots this year. We could only cap a 2 stack with a can. We finished around 40th opr wise and 3rd on Archimedes but most of the top robots above us were really tall. Besides 2826, I can't think of any other very successful short robots. (I may be wrong). But if that rule was added to the game, it would have made Recycle rush more interesting to watch, more suspenseful (having another team cap your stacks would be scary), and a whole new game to scout. Needless to say, it would probably mean a bigger range between the top top teams and the good teams.