Re: Question:What strategy are you going to use?
 

strategy: whatever is necessary to win

We'll see the shaping of this "whatever" in a few weeks :)

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Our team is plannig to make a robot agile and quick that can hurdle

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I'm starting to wonder if just building a small fast little bot is the not the surest way to go. I'm thinking the better bots might get 2-3 hurdles per match while being so-so hassled. I think it will be pretty easy to shut down even the best bot from hurdling, since the ball is so huge and easy to defend. I'm also thinking about 4 good hurdlers per regional. which means if you can pull off 5-6 second laps, with at least 1 full lap in hybrid, you may have a winner.
Usually there will be teams that won't give up on the game plan (in this case, hurdling). And if they just can't get it done, the racer team wins.
If you have a racer, a defender and a good hurdler, you're set. I think 2 hurdlers on 1 team will get in each others way. Even pushing the ball around might screw up your hurdler. Hmmm, we need more tests!
Although now I'm curious how many teams are getting serious about small fast robots?

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I think 3 hurdles is a bit high ... and I believe that 2 hurdles will be the benchmark of a great hurdling team.

5-6 second laps??? also very doubtful. 15 second laps with traffic will be a good rabbit robot.

The robots that win will be the ones that, no matter what, bring value to their team. Since there are less scoring objects than robots on an alliance, the robots must not be a 1-hit-wonder, but instead need to be good at enough to be an asset to their alliance.

JMHO

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I think we will see a lot of racers this year. While many are planning to hurdle, few will do it well. Just racing is a good back up. In the past, if you couldn't get your manipulator to work well, you just played defense. Well, this year those teams can simply race around and remain somewhat offensive. Props to the GDC, they have found a way to decrease the number of bots whose main purpose is to amble the field and ram into their opponents.

As for us, hurdling is all I'm going to say.:cool:

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Our team is looking into hurdling, no finalized designs though.
Sorry, its kind of off topic, but has anyone else noticed all the different ways people spell hurdle?
ive seen - hurdle hurdel herdul herdel heardel herdleng and heredled
I just think it is kind of funny.
Joey