Should the stretcher have been used more?

[Anne Lam]

When we had decided to build a stretcher bot, we knew it'd be hard to convince the other teams to sacrifice their robot for ten points. The most obvious reason for us to be a stretcher bot is to be able to contribute something to the alliance if more than one robot is able to balance goals (we didn't feel that picking up small balls were really worth it). Even though we had a video of our bot pulling a stretcher across the field around the clock at our pit, no one seemed to believe we could do it! Of the ten matches we played, we only used the stretcher three times (Kika Manans correct me if I am wrong). I completely agree that the stretcher isn't worth missing the multipliers for. However, I do have a mixed feeling about this, and I guess I should say it all depends on who and in what shapes your alliances were to "yield a significant benefit" from the utilization of the stretcher.