[JesseK]

Get your alliance partner to act like he's stuck on a corner. Then you bump the opponent who's trapping the ball. BAM opponent has to move. Counter to the ridiculous counter of the loophole through the rule.

So let's say you decide to take this strategy with your bot:

There are now 3 opponent robots working together with a single track ball who are STILL scoring points. You my friend are not. You built a $10,000 robot that has the objective of sitting in a corner entraping a ball -- $10 worth of cinder blocks could do the same thing, so why even waste the engineering effort and money to build the machine?

Take this strategy and you will be outscored by an alliance that works together, and believe me after last year's bot-to-bot ramping there are quite a few teams who are figuring their strategies & designs based upon helping their alliance out in addition to their own team status.