[JamesBrown]

Originally Posted by artdutra04

The only other possible con that this strategy might have is that if one of the tubes falls in front as your robot as it continues to drive, you may be contacting two or more tubes at once as you drive to knock them all down. This would most likely get called by the referees as a penalty for controlling multiple tubes.

You could probably get away with this once but after that you would probably be out of luck.

Also alot of teams will be designing to pick up tubes that are laying down because flat on the ground is the easiest repeatable posistion for all 18 ringers. This may not always be a good strategy.