Re: How Important Is Capping?
 

Sorry for the late posts, but Sparky 5 is all capping. Our human player can sink them in like crazy. IMHO, Capping=Hanging in the regular matches. In the finals, capping>hanging. Many of the higher up teams hang, and lots of times teams won by just one ball. If a team can get one of their bots hanging, fill up their big & small goals and cap them both, they'll win.

Re: How Important Is Capping?
 

Both depend on one's strategy. OUr robot could cap only the stationary goals but was very capapble of hanging. Our robot alliance won at stl and one of our alliances could cap but not hang and the other capped and hanged. We ended up winning the final match by having both us and our alliance hanging while the oppoisng allaince had only one hanging robot. But much can be said about capping as well as the first win of the finals was with the capping roobt, our robot tipped over and i shot about 6 balls in with the other shooter shoooting about 4 or 5 in and then they capped it allowing the victry. both are essential to go far.

"air ric" not to be confused with air jordan

Re: How Important Is Capping?
 

Hey all,
First I would like to say... THANK YOU 967 for picking us to be in your alliance! You guys are awesome as is team 16! Our team has never been this excited about anything. We all freaked out a bit in that first match when you guys tipped over but our drivers and your human player worked awesome together to pull off a nervous but exciting win! Thank you 967 and 16, you all did a great job!!! It is a very good strategy to have at least one good capper / ball herder in the elimination matches... or at least it was shown to be a good strategy at St. Louis.
Derek