Re: Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?
 

I don't know if it has happened elsewhere, but at this weekend's "Bear Brawl" in Springfield, MA, the winning alliance was composed entirely of robots which couldn't hurdle! (The tournament was played in 2-on-2 format, so this alliance only had two non-hurdlers.) For more details, see this post in the "Bear Brawl 2008" thread.

Re: Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?
 

Happened in Chesapeake

1418- the only effective herder I saw all season
11- hurdler
2016- lapper

Took down 1st, 3rd, and 5th alliances.:cool:

Pretty sure it happened at a couple other places.

Re: Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?
 

Long Island Regional...

2487, 2010, 102... mixture of 2 hurdlers and a lap bot. And not being biased, but no one team on the alliance outshown another. In my eyes, all 3 alliance members carried the team to the win.

Personally, I thought haveing 3 hurdlers was silly. Yes, one shoots it over the one who doesn't have a ball can go right after it. But what if that's never the case? Having 6 big robots on the field can get pretty crazy. Having a robot smaller that could maneuver around them could be an advantage.

just my 2 cents

Re: Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?
 

Ken's point which maybe you may have missed judging by your responses, was that there were only 2 partners on the winning alliance at Bear Brawl and 0 hurdlers involved. One was a lap bot, & one was a herder.

The true place for an alliance who could not hurdle at all was defined there with that win.

Re: Is there a place this year for robots that cant hurdle?
 

Anyone have a vid of that 2v2 (the defining point of non hurdlers), was 148 involved in this comp.