[BetaHelix]

In my opinion if you have to cheesecake a whole new bot into you alliance, it says a whole lot about your strategy. If you are so focused on needing this one exact type of robot that you will completely remove a functional robot from the field, it is a poorly drafted strategy. A major part of FRC strategy is the aspect of adapting to what you have and applying problem solving skills. If you can't find one speck of utility in someone else's design, you find a role for them, or you don't pick them.

Also cheesecake is not an instant win. At one of our regionals we saw one of the top alliances take the entire lift of of a robot so they could replace it with can grabbers, and they ultimately only came in second to an alliance of three bots who worked together.

As a student and the drive coach of a mid tier team, I support improving existing systems that teams have build, but oppose adding new ones that are untested or risk removing current robot function