[ALIBI]

I believe that you will see four keepers at two keepers per alliance. You just do not have enough real estate out there to have one alliance get three keepers without running into eachother, the magic of the combinaiton of 1114 and 67 at GLR placing on the same column will be hard to duplicate. Some alliances will try to place three and may by chance, it will not be reliable and will they want to chance getting three when they know that thier chances of getting two is all most a given? Trying for three could result in none of the three scoring. Will the Championship be the play ground where placing keepers will finally gets its' due? You will probably see defensive auton. That's when three robots trying to score keepers will come into play with one robot being blocked by defense and the other two robots being free to place keepers. If you know that your opposing alliance has a defensive auton, send out all three just to see what will happen. Given the quality of robots that will be seen at the Championship, will being able to place keepers reliably or a good defensive auton be the characteristics that will make or break it for alliance captains' selections? Defense will rule the day after lunch on Saturday and any alliance that can get four unanswered points in auton will have a sizeable advantage over their opponents. If I have to chose between two keepers per alliance or an alliance getting three keepers, no doubt about it, three keepers by one alliance would be right up there with six robots hanging, if you know what I mean.