[Jon Stratis]

I agree that not many teams would want to "hitch a ride" for the entire match... but i could see it being a viable strategy if both robots were designed together with the idea of working together (clearly, not really possible with FIRST as alliances are randomized, etc).

From a purely hypothetical point of view, having one team that focuses all their effort on an amazing drive train that can get them around the track 20 times per match, and another that can attach to them and hurdle amazingly quickly (with no drive train to speak of), then such a combination of specialized bots could be a good thing.

Of course, you don't really have the ability to plan out weeks ahead of time with other teams, and even if you could, you would be reliant on one team making it to the top 8 in the regionals to pick the other, which probably wouldn't happen if the bots were designed to work together so well.

Still, it's an interesting idea.