[Kevin Sevcik]

It's going to be a confluence of factors, I'm sure. I'm guessing the primary concern is that 90% of robots using the low-bar implies that 90% of robots on the field have apparently decided to use a one robot wide section of the field as as their main thoroughfare. In a game that's going to require constant cycling over defenses to score points. Thinking back to 2013, where something like 90% of robots were too tall to sneak under towers, this sounds like a recipe for a traffic jam of immense proportions. Of course in 2013, you could score 4 discs per cycle. This year it's just one boulder, so cycling is going to be more frequent.

But the terrifying thing is this: In 2013, being low was a significant challenge you took on to gain field access and mobility. This year, it appears that a significant number of teams have probably sacrificed other functionality, including defense crossing ability, in order to throw themselves into a traffic jam and likely reduce their overall field access and mobility.