[willpflem]

I do not think that hoppers will be in contention in anyway similar to 2015's as it relates to cans. The robots in each match will be scoring so those balls will be recycled (albeit to the other team) and will then be scored again, so this is not a resource that can be exhausted. Even if people were battling over hoppers a robot, due to size constraints, can't intake from both hoppers at once so half would end up on the floor. This would cause any "fight" to result in really only half of the available fuel being captured and it subsequently not really being worth it because the opposing alliance could then collect just as much as you.