[GKrotkov]

I don't think that swerve is inherently weak in this game. I do, however, think that it would limit your options. That's a choice you could make - but it's important to make that choice with your eyes open.

If you intended to use your (pretty awesome) swerve drive once again, you could consider focusing on tower damage and scoring boulders, while using the low bar to get from the neutral zone to the offense zone. Most likely, the defenses in category B and D would be impenetrable to you, but I'm sure there are other ways around the other categories of defenses.

In fact, being able to go under the low bar could help you a lot; note that the defenses in category C seem to be "open-from-behind" defenses. You could be a robot that helps their alliance get through those particular defenses, because you can get over to the other side more quickly.