[EricH]

Originally Posted by axiomofdarkness

It's very unlikely that FIRST will reuse game pieces from last year, especially in a very similar way. It puts rookie and newer teams at a huge disadvantage against teams who already have excellent stacking mechanisms from last year.

You haven't seen Stack Attack, have you. On the contrary, I predict that the teams with stacking mechanisms will suddenly be at a HUGE DISadvantage, primarily because stacks are so much easier (and more fun!) to knock down.

And I'm willing to bet that a number of stackers become useless when the exact gamepiece changes...