[MrForbes]

I don't know about what the teams that are attempting to "do it all" are up to....we are attempting to do what we think are the most important things:

Cross enough defenses to be able to breach, as an alliance
Pick up boulders relatively quickly
Shoot high.
Or shoot low, if high isn't working so hot (defense, lousy aiming, inconsistent shooter)

We are looking at those magic ranking points. I think we should be able to get the breaching one pretty often. The capture one will be relatively rare (at the lower-mid level regionals we play), but we intend to do our best to attempt it.

As far as defenses, I keep coming back to the fact that there are 3 robots on an alliance, and it just looks like the defenses are designed to be a cooperative thing among an alliance. Stronger robot pushing weaker robot across harder defenses, one robot opening door/bridge for the other two to cross, etc. I'm not too concerned about the defenses thing. But maybe that's because we were able to cross 5 of them today relatively easily in testing, after getting our robot mostly together.

edit: I just noticed that I left climbing out of my post. That's because we left climbing out of our strategy.

edit 2: we are going under the low bar