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ok in response I think the finals are going to consist of a robot that has a transmission which goes on drills and then shifts down into Chippy's. The other robot will be a ball handler which may or may not handle a goal.

Also to those who think strong robots are the best remember that if the loser scores zero you get zero so be careful what you are stealing because as some people have found out that teams are willing to sacrifice a match if it means a top seed gets zero points.

No problem. Just hope you don't try that at VCU. Might get me in trouble if it costs us a match.;)

But if the idea wasn't to prevent theft, why the design feature?

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Power and speed will both be important. Probably, power will be more important, as teams will be fighting over goals very often.

It's funny to see posts from many teams who think their robot is the most powerful one out there and that no one can get a goal away from them. I'm sure that many teams think that (including us). Only a few teams will be correct, but many will be mistaken.

At a given Regional, only 2 or 3 robots can claim to be the strongest, most powerful robots... out of all of the teams at the Regional. That leaves many teams who underestimated their competition.

I think that we may have a chance at being these 2-3 most powerful robots... but it's too difficult to tell at this time. I can only hope.

Andy B.

this is so true I can't wait to see the power that is out there. at lease we tested our out at a pre game and we did open alot of eyes. becasue they build a robot to steal goals an we walk up and take it from them and drag them with us. just to see the faces was good enough

the lease you should get is 20 x 3 because idf the other team is trying to get zero point you can always go into there endzone.

or the best thing we did was push the other team into there end zone and keep them from coming out.

if you have power you can do almost anything you want to. a ball handler can only pick up balls that is not going to be good enough. We took our ball handler off because of what the pre game showed us.

I too, think that power is most important, although not everything. If you have an anchor, brake or chock (ABC) to prevent being moved (incredible friction coefficient) and held a goal or two in the scoring zone, then an ally could place numerous balls into your goals.

Short of that, I want to be the team who lets the ball gathers fill the goals so that I could try to steal them. :)

As for those teams that think they are "All that and a bag of chips" when it comes to power, if you viewed any of today's matches, I wasn't too impressed with very many "power bots". As Joe J. said, I'm sure that most of those who competed today thought that they were the most powerful out there-- before today's competitions.

Sometimes reality hurts:(

We will hit spinning goals, we practiced it already. THe pegasus likes to run into the goals at full speed

For the record: We are not the most powerful robot