[BrendanB]

After witnessing the official Week Zero event and watching Palmetto I am surprised by how often breaching occurs. I think that is more attributed to most teams focusing their efforts on breaching (which is good) but that means teams had to focus less or not at all on Scaling or Boulders.

I think overall having to compete this close to bag day hurt a lot of teams but more importantly the first events of the year are always drastically different compared to Week 3 or 4 (I've mostly competed at Week 1 events in FRC until 2014).

I was very surprised by how many teams were successful in the high goal compared to the low goal. Overall I think that was mostly impacted by the low goal robots focusing primarily on breaching consistently (like 2200) instead of scoring and that the high goal robots made it their top priority avoiding things like scaling or damaging numerous defenses. 179 and 4451 were two of the most well rounded robots at the event tackling the high goal and defenses with ease but they are also some of the stronger robots in their region.