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Originally Posted by squirrel

Yes, you would be a valuable alliance partner. But keep in mind that your alliance partners may have problems, if they fall over or have a drive malfunction they won't be able to make it to the end zone and you won't be able to lift them, and won't get your 60 points. If you can score some rings in addition to lifting, you'll be even more valuable.

Building off that, you'd only be a valuable alliance partner for certain robots. If you can only lift robots in the "long" configuration, then you wouldn't be valuable to anyone who builds a "wide" robot.

Lifting mechanisms are going to require some very careful and good thinking if you want to ensure you can lift ANY robot.