Playing a different game on Einstein

[Jared Russell]

Originally Posted by Brian Ha

There are a couple really cool looking wall bots out there but man they are gonna be a pain in the arse

A thought that has been nagging me over the first two weeks of competition:

There will be three robots on the World Champion alliance. 98% of FIRST seems to have designed with tube scoring in mind. Yet every single piece of evidence I have seen and experienced with this game shows that three tube scorers on one alliance is a crowd - you invariably get in each others' way as you try to fill up the rack. And there are likely going to be dozens of robots that will be able to reliably score at least 2 logos by themselves by the time St. Louis rolls around (I have been to two Regionals in person and witnessed perhaps 6-8 teams capable of this already).

Will the winning alliance's third robot simply be another scorer? Will it be a scorer pressed into defense/tube shuttling duty? Or will it be a purpose-built third robot (think 148 from 2008)?