The Quest for Einstein

[Citrus Dad]

Originally Posted by tindleroot

This year should have been great, but then every team decided to make stacks by themselves IMO the best alliance possible would have a super tote stacker with a separate can topping robot (such as 148's two robots), but there were so few opportunities for this since most teams found that they can just build the whole stack underneath the cans.

I suspect that the GDC may have thought that building stacks would take more teamwork, and didn't anticipate the success of individual teams in solving the problem. That there was such a wide disparity in the ability to build multiple stacks may illustrate how technically difficult the problem was. The solution by the GDC might have been to give bonus capping points if a stacked was capped by a different team.