[EricH]

We're trying to pick a system that will work with a variety of minibots to get them to the pole here. If teams put a 12"+ cube on their robots, with some form of platform that gets a minibot to the pole, it seems that that has the largest potential to accept any random minibot. That leaves activation up to the minibot users, but standardizing activation methods would be nice too.

If you standardize minibot activation on the minibot, teams have to design for that. If you standardize a deployment that can accept any minibot, and have activation be automatic on the minibot, that's easier to do.