[EricH]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

Why do so many top teams end up going low?

1. Powerhouses weren't going to blame the lack of a breach on a random alliance partners getting irrevocably stuck on a defense. They assumed it would happen and wanted to make sure they could still do the other 4. (By themselves if necessary.)
2. Class C defenses are a time suck. In eliminations top alliances are still skipping them, making low bar a faster option if capable.

One of the two non-low-bar captains made a pretty decent living doing a Class C in AUTO(and in teleop). And showed Class A ability in elims, too.

1197 designed to be capable of handling anything that isn't low bar. Part of that was figuring out that with everybody else going low, we didn't need to!