cap high or fast
 

would you rather be able to cap high or fast. And please do not put down you do both unless you have video to prove it.

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if i had t o chose one, i would say fast. You can also use your arm to stick them under the goals if you need to and if there are 8 goals (say you cant make the center but can get one or two on the others ) then there is still plenty of oppurtunity for getting points. I hope ours can do both but we havn't had a center goal or more than 3 tetras to test it out on...

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Looking at the past games:

2003: much alike this year's game, except with stacking tetras.. many teams designed to be able to stack high, but in the end you rarely saw any teams stack at all. The game turned in a pushfest and who could control the bridge.

2004: Hanging/Capping: more teams turn to hanging than capping

2005: A fast, strong robot can almost always prevent a robot from picking up a tetra and capping it- or can it? I don't think there will be the need to stack high, stack fast, definitely, but not stack high.


so I'd take being able to stack fast.

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ya, i agree fast is better than high. the quicker you can put up one is better since you can hopefully get it up before someone pushes you to stop you. there are so many goals so you can always stack more.

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Fast for me. :)

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Fast is defenitly the priority. If you're fast and can cap all the shorter goals with a reasonable number of tetras you'll be able to get 3 pointers for every tetra stacked and still be able to complete half of the rows available. If one robot on your team can outstack the others in terms of height, leave it to stack the center goal at the end the match to deal with the other 4 rows.

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I'm going to sort of go out on a limb... and say that the winners are going to be who have the best tetra capping per second speed, assuming that they can't be pushed easily.

I don't see this becoming a game that's revolving much around that center goal either. Robots that get 5 or 6 tetras each round will be great to go, wherever they are.

:: Throws Out Some Bait ::
Scoring fast is the most important key to this game.
:: / Throws Out Some Bait ::

Matt

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We can do both, but if I had to choose I would say fast. Because I have a feeling it will be difficult to cap a goal if someone else is messing around with you. So the quicker the better

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fast for the regionals ~ high for the championship~
capping the last can be as much as a 43 point swing

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Yeah I'm thinking a bot scoring 5-6 average per match is going well into the finals. I think the final matches will consist of a bot on each team scoring in the range of 8 per match. I already started a poll based on this yesterday
It's looking like folks think 2-6 will be the average, I think that's a little high. I'm guessing more in the range of 2-3 per team per match "average". But speed is definitely the key.

Edit: I also think no 1 team will score more than 14 in a match. I also think the best teams will max out at 10 per match. And your highest alliance score will be around 24.

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Ignoring the fact that it is only necessary to stack high if you can stack fast, I would say fast.

Two years in FIRST have proven to me that success can always be found in a high-volume, high speed robot, whereas a bot that goes for broke once in a while goes broke more often than not. That is why I am worried for this year--it is much more difficult to do a "high volume" robot this year, and we're really facing a new paradigm as a team.

Our bot, Taurus, is quite different from our successful ball gatherer from last year, Scorpius. Hopefully, it will still be successful.

--Petey

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I think scoring fast will be the best bet, but I also think you should have a plan as to what spots you want to put the tetras on. So think swiftly and wisely!!!

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Define "high".

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im not sure what our robot can do but i would like it to cap fast. i know that our robot can store tetras on the back of it so it would be nice to quickly stack them and then collect more. It would be nice to stack high so we can get more tetras on the goals but there is only 2 minutes in the game so i would prefer stacking quickly.

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"Fast is GOOD!!! :D :D :D " so i say fast