[Ryan Foley]

You dont need a bot that scores as many points as possible. Heres how my team approaches it:

1) whats the most useful strategy. Now heres what I mean by "useful". For elimination rounds, teams picking alliance partners wont necessarily want the highest scoring bots, they'll want robots that can do what they cant, and can be the most help in a match. With 2003, a stacker bot isnt much use to someone who can already stack, KOTH bot would be much more useful. So what we do is think what the most popular strategy will be, then do something else. Had we been involved in 2003, our team would have been a box pusher/ stealer that would have gone under that bar. Why? Because we figured most stacker bots wouldnt be able too, and it's quicker than the ramp.

2) we also take into consideration whats strategy is the simplest to build a robot for. A bot that can limbo and flip a bin over the bar is (probably) much simpler than a big stacker bot. And usually, its easier to build a single-task robot thhan one that can do everything. Its easier to one thing well than it is to do everything.

So thats my advice, the most useful, simplest strategy that you can do well.