[Jay O'Donnell]

Originally Posted by Ginger Power

Another factor that comes into play with regards to the value of a defensive robot is whether the GDC decides to raise the health of the tower. I see it as fairly likely that they bring it up, or else a capture will happen basically every match. If the tower health is raised to the point where 2 strong high goal shooters can't bring it down alone, the value of offensive capabilites in a 3rd robot goes up.

If it's brought up a little bit then a defense robot becomes more valuable since the capture will be preventable. As it stands, a defensive robot, even the best, will have trouble preventing a capture. 3 robots all score during or right after auton and the defense robot now has to prevent 2/3 elite scoring machines from getting 5 boulders into the tower. This is doubtful especially considering how unblockable some teams are.

I don't see them changing it. And I also don't see a capture happening nearly every Quals match. The average ability of teams is much lower than you're anticipating in my opinion. Watching Quals matches from past years at champs shows lots of teams who fail to do much of anything.