vote so we can compare the results of the poll to the results of competition
3 goals would yield a low score for your oponents and thus you would get a low score also.
You would get a low score in qualification rounds, but being able to keep the opponent’s score very low will come in handy in the finals if you get picked.
youll get picked for the elimination matches if u win all ur qualification matches
With a dominating capability like that, I think it is likely you’d also get picked for finals… I mean, if a robot can grab all 3 goals it effectively dominates the playingfield… in the finals who cares about balance… shut em out, by giving them NO way to score…
A three goal controlling robot wouldn’t necessarily be a three goal scoring robot. A robot could hold all three in the center of the field, rotate, and effectively fine-tune the score to whatever it needed to be by rotating.
The trouble is building a robot that, once it has the three goals, can do something with them. - those goals are huge lever arms. up against two quality robots, could easily be pushed around by a robot at the end of the goal - unless they’ve already thought of that.
Oh no!! I’ve said too much! 
The goals may be lever arms, but they turn a 130 lb robot into a (assuming 180 lbs/goal) 670 lb robot. That’s quite a large unyieldy mass to move…
Benji, that’s not entiraly true…
In '99 I drove 308’s machine to be 6-0, one of only 2 teams to do that. We didn’t get picked up. It’s all how you market yourself and the luck of the draw.
Just don’t forget about those ball handelers… with a good ball harvester you only need 1 goal to win…
If a speedy robot can get one goal and fill it up with 30-50 balls in under 40 seconds while avoiding having the goal stolen (I’d think it’d be hard to steal a fast moving goal with an evasive driver) as one of our designs should be able to do, that’s 50-70 points assuming that our partner gets ten points (at least) by just sitting there. This seems easier to me than trying to chase down and catch all 3 goals, getting you 40 points vs 30 MAX assuming the same thing about your partner. Also, if the balls are in the game, it will probably be a much higher scoring match and thus give a higher multiplier to the winner.