[George A.]

I think that if your opponent hoards balls into their scoring goal...then you get a HP to throw them all into a big hopper, then have that hopper dump all the balls into your goal, you could concievable score more points than you could be shooting, since you could do it quicker.

Granted, if you can only collect balls from the ground then that cuts the role of the HP considerably

It all depends on your robot design...although 11 did win a semi-final match in 2002 when our HP threw a hail mary shot into the goal at the buzzer. Granted, those goals were considerably larger than these, but still a hail mary shot at the buzzer isn't inconcevable