[Eugenia Gabrielov]

You're right, teamwork will play a very important part.

The pinning rule may faze some people. This year, it is illegal to "pin" a robot, i.e., push them into a corner or wall, for more than 10 seconds, or there will be a penalty. To some people, this screams "What? No more defense?". I think the best way to combat this thru teamwork is to have a strategy that really wouldn't require you to pin them, but rather help your alliance to corner a robot from say, getting into the endzone at the end of the round if it is impossible for your own alliance to do so.

Also, I think it will be imperative to have a robot that can run tetras. Realistically speaking it could take a great deal of seconds to get a robot from the loading zones and for it to cap the goals. As cyberguy34000 described earlier, this year robots with not as many "gadgets" on them may be a critical part in winning some rounds. I think FIRST is opening this opprotunity to a lot of teams who have to reconstruct their robot at competition or to teams who start late in the build season.

Good luck everyone!