[drewsef]

Maneuverability is the key to keeping your trailer clean. Like others have said, if you get stuck in a big dogpile, the human players will just clean out their stash on your trailer. If you are quick and able to move "randomly" about the field, unless the opponent's HP is Kobe, you are pretty much golden.

Our robot is human fed, and we didnt really focus on reloading our dumper, but our crab drive kept the moon rocks out of our trailer, significantly helping out our alliance. The last 3 practice matches we had only 2 balls in our trailer while playing defense.