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Re: Last call for bold predictions before competition begins!

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The top 25 teams in FRC (measured however you would like -- FRCTop25, Looking Forward top 25, whatever) will have a greater percentage of low bar challenged robots than FRC as a whole.
I almost guarantee it.

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Captures will occur in fewer than 30% of qualification matches across all weeks of regionals/districts. Of these captures, more than half will be achieved entirely through low goal scoring.
I'd wager > 75% of all captures will be done primarily with low goal scoring (5+ balls).

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No robots with Rhino tread modules will make Einstien.
That will be the biggest surprise of them all. Due to just the sheer mass quantity of them, I think like last year with mecanums, it's just bound to happen.

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Related, a cheesecakeable scaling device will emerge later in the season.
I sure would like to know how that will happen. I keep hearing whispers about cheesecake lifting, but that sounds crazier than cheesecake can burglary last year, which I don't think ever happened.

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A robot will successfully, if roughly, perform a barrel roll crossing the ramparts. People will be talking about it for years.
That's a bold strategy Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for 'em.

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The number of batter shooters will increase dramatically as the season goes on.
This also in; the amount of defense played on said batter shooters will also increase as the season goes on.

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The category C defenses will never be used past the divisional quarterfinals.
I hope that's not the case. C plans to be the first one we damage.
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