[Gabriel]

What surprised me was that the robot CAN'T score the purple balls, so you're forced to train and rely on a human player. I suppose that having a robot feed balls to a human player is probably faster and more accurate in most cases than having a robot deliver the balls itself. You'd have to chase down each individual ball, hold it in a cage and then dump them all into a goal (or do it one by one), that would lead to a lot of top-heavy monsters, like we saw in 2002 on one hand and a lot of teams would focus entirely on the small balls and develop lousy systems for delivering them, thus dooming the team. We saw that in 2002 as well with my old team for example. Instead, the veterans have to focus on a challenge they haven't solved yet, hanging from the bar and one they haven't seen since 2001, handling big balls.