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This entire thing blows my mind, honestly. Based on the BBQ polls and general speculation about CD poll bias, a little less than half of the mid-to-high tier teams are trying to do basically everything. It's very surprising to me that this would happen, especially in one of the few games in recent years were the various specializations are so well defined. Personally, I think an alliance of do-it-alls would be absolutely insane as long as they were coordinated well, but there's little to set it apart from a specialist alliance with robots that are much simpler to build.

So, what terrifies Karthik? The answer seems pretty simple now. There is a huge number of teams going directly against the one paradigm that has held true in every FRC game for as long as I can remember (with the exception of RR, sort of). The jack of all trades is the master of nothing, and unless everyone has figured out some brilliant design, there's going to be a lot of nothings out there this season.