I think good driving will really be it
Our robot was pretty meaty, it had 4 wheel drive with 4 motors for the drive train (2 calupahs and 2 drills)
But just before the finals we lost one gearbox completely (cutting our power down to something like 65% if not more, our claw, which was flaky all competition just stopped working all together. But the saving factor was out driver. He managed to use our robot to control the field even against pretty crazy pushers. We even managed to beat one team who had a robot that grabbed two of the goals, we levered him out of the scoring zone and jolted back to home zone to get the win (footage
here Courtesy of team 610, the great team that was kind enough to pick us as an alliance partner)
Well enough boasting, more point making
Good driving can beat even the beefiest of robots. I could see a team with moderate robots win just on pure driving skill.