[Dezion]

Considering that most high shooters also seem to be going underneath the low bar, it will be easy to block shots with the right design. I can't state how many robots will be designed for this, but those that are designed like this will probably go into eliminations. After a team has two good high shooters and breach bots, a defensive robot would be a great option for the last member of their alliance.

Defensive drivers will have to be cautious though as to not incur penalties (of course, all drivers should be cautious regardless of their posistion on the field.) Pinning an opposing robot and pinning too soon may be very common penalties for a defensive bot. As well, defensive drivers must ensure they are out of the courtyard in the last 20 seconds, which I would not believe to be too much of an issue, as they would more than likely have a scaling device, due to the fact they would not be under the constraints of the low bar (meaning, depending on their design, they would have to raise their robot less or it will br easier).

A strong breach bot may fall back to defense after most of the opposing alliance's defenses have been damaged. This would occur more often if the breach bot could not score a high goal. I know that this will probably be our teams strategy if we are not needed to continue scoring goals or crossing defenses.

For example, an alliance may have a robot that can do the Low Bar, Cat B, and Cat D; a robot that can do Low Bar, Cat B, and Cheval; and a third robot that can do all defenses (or the vast majority to qualify as a breach bot). The breach bot would damage all the defensss the other two could not do, then play defense. As the other two robots went and scored goals, they would go over the defenses that they can, breaching all defenses, and scoring.

Strategies that utilize each robots' strengths and makes up for their weakness through collaboration will be the ones that succeed and win.