Question:What strategy are you going to use?
 

What is your idea so far how your team will win on this competition.:confused: What strategy that your team will use. Will it be speeding around the tracks score points?:rolleyes: Or will it be to hurdle or herd the balls.:ahh: Whats your stategy? Whats your team's idea to win this competion?:D Why am I asking this? Because I'm curious

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My team has the awsome advantage of starting a week late. why? Because we are a boarding school, and we all return on the 13th of january. Our strategy is to wait untill some of the notoriously decent teams at our regional event have started to build, then ask them what sort of robot they would like to see on thier final aliance. Then build it.

This is the only "good" I can see coming out of this late start. Now to e-mail all the teams at the Kansas City regional!

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Our strategy is to score more points than everyone else at the regional, and failing that do prove ourselves as a true team player that can bring a ton of value to any team out there :) As for the specifics... you'll just have to wait and see!

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Fast driven hurdler, with an option to place a trackball on the hurdling.

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Ours is pretty simple; do everything, and do it fast. Simplicity on the far side of complexity is wonderful!

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1. Robot moves 10 fps @ 11.5 volts:)
2. Robot can bump ball off goal
3. Robot can put ball back:D
We are going to build in that order so no matter what we can compete.

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So you don't want those 8 points?

(emphasis mine)

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our plan so far is to be fast really fast, have some way to remove a trackball from the overpass, and finally hurdle the trackball at high speed

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here's a strategy: get a chicklit, get a n64 controller, and get your star mariocart enthusiast behind the wheel

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yeh i like that cus if we did that i would be driving Ya for wasting time playing N64

I think we are running a bot that can go fast herd and hurdle with the ability to knock the ball don and put it back up at the end:D

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Strategy: Attempt to win every match. Failing that, get picked by the dominant team at the regional.

(Hey, it should work...assuming that one or the other happens.:D)

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8 points is 8 points. If the Hybrid works, we will take it. If not, we will zoom around the track as far as possible in hybrid and cross lines to get points. We might also want to get out of the way of a more capable alliance partner and let them knock the ball down.

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if our robot is anything like our robot last year ( and as long as this year it works...:( ... then we should be able to reach up to 15 miles an hour and in addition with our mecanum wheels, we should be able to out maneuver the other teams.
We'll try to knock the ball out during the autonomous mode to get early points then for the rest of the match use our speed and control to our advantage.

P.S. last year we took out some of the tiling on the walls of the cafeteria with our robot. call it.... destructive art

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MARS is still debating what method to use, but we're pretty much set with hurling the ball over the overpass. We're drawing up a way to push the ball off during hybrid mode. We've also decided that the 10 points from hurdling the ball then passing the finish line is good enough at the end of the match, so we're not making a way to put it back on the overpass.

Our main source of ideas on how to get the ball over tends to be siege weapons...

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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