[ngreen]

Gears on the floor could be an alliance strategy, where a great gear handler from the floor gets gears delivered to them by their partners. Of course, once they are on the ground, the opponents can play defense on them but they are harder to clear away than balls and they can only possess one at a time. Getting as many as possible to your side (even on the ground) and having a good pickup and placement mechanism would make it feasible for a single robot to place 12 gears if their partners were delivering them to the launchpad area.

I imagine you'd have 3 gears on robots and the reserve to start. At least one would be scored in auto and any left at the start of teleop would be dumped in the launchpad. Then all 3 robots would go for 3 more gears (and fuel). At that point, the gear handler would have 5 gears to place bringing the total to 7. Repeat this twice more (or 3x with 2 robots) and you'd be at 13.