[SeanFitz]

People are talking about a defensive robot being tall, fast, and heavy. However, if each team has only one or two high goal shooters, your defensive robot could be a small and powerful robot that doesn't block the shots, but hit the shooters and cause them to miss. With the relatively small size of these goals, you would only need to angle the robot a little and the shot goes off target, which is not that hard a task.

That being said, my winning alliance prediction is a robot like that that can also breach a few defenses, one high goal shooter, and one low goal/breaching robot. I doubt many alliances would be able to do this, and I see the early competitions having alliances that either focus completely on breaching or completely on goals.