What defenses is your team planning to cross? [Strawpoll]
 

An initial poll to see how teams are planning to breach into the courtyards. Hosted on Strawpoll so multiple defenses can be selected.

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Re: What defenses is your team planning to cross? [Strawpoll]
 

I feel overconfident by voting for all defenses aside from the 1' 4" doggy door. But our plan is to be able to cross any defense, at any time.

Re: What defenses is your team planning to cross? [Strawpoll]
 

Better to be great at a few than mediocre at all.

Re: What defenses is your team planning to cross? [Strawpoll]
 

While it's true that it's better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, it's better still to be a live lion. It's 28 hours into the season, be a lion until you need to be a jackal. :)

Re: What defenses is your team planning to cross? [Strawpoll]
 

I have a sneaking suspicion that many teams will be passing on the low bar. Having a high ground clearance for rough terran type defences while fitting under 16" is a difficult engineering challenge. You really get squeezed in the middle if you constrain your height that much.

I think a common niche robot will be a short, herder robot that is capable of knocking out that low bar. Having that capability could give many teams the oppurtunity to play in the playoffs as a 2nd pick.

Re: What defenses is your team planning to cross? [Strawpoll]
 

I have a feeling almost nobody, save a few rookie teams will be attempting to do this. Having to build your robot under 1 foot 4 inch or whatever isn't worth the limitations in my opinion.

That being said you could very well be a potent wedge bot that could just go for the low goal by holding in the bolders with intake wheels mounted very low to pick up boulders. Make it a sort of "Fastback design" with the rear of the robot being a wedge under 5" to lift the portcullis