[Kevin Leonard]

Most of you seem to be posting as if your third robots will be totally incapable of doing anything but defense and challenging. Maybe the events you've attended have had weak third robots, but at the events I attended, there were excellent robots available by the 24th pick, and some that went unpicked. Some examples are:

At TVR:
4203 could score 2-3 high goals in a good match
1450 could cross most defenses and score 2-3 low goals
At FLR:
3951 could score 2-3 low goals and climb
174 could score 2-3 low goals and climb
191 could score 2-3 high goals undefended in a good match

Heck, our 24th robot at FLR could score 4 high goals in teleop and one in auto in a good match. (That was an anomaly though, as 2383 flew under everyone's radar).
I expect that, similar to last year, third and fourth robots will be robots that may have won regionals and districts as high seeds.

My personal priorities for a third robot:
Can cross something in auto that doesn't interfere with my robot and my partner's robot (or shoot a spy bot auto shot)
Can score either a ball in auto or a climb (10 points either way)
Smart Driving and good team players
Can score 4 goals if necessary (low or high- basically a backup in case the other scoring robot is shut down, or we decide to run all-offense)
And being able to challenge is a given.