Re: How many robots have scored Super Cells?
 

As with any ball, you have to throw it into play, but there's nothing stopping a robot from picking it up.

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man, thats a drag.....we could have scored a bunch of them:ahh: lol

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we a few... one we just couldn't quite get lined up in time, and the other fell about 3 inches short... so we tried

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team 2194 Fondy Fire scored them like crazy almost every match in the semi finals and finals in Wisconsin regional.

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In Chesapeake we saw plenty scored by the HP's. Especially in the elimination tournament, ACtually, the final was decided by a last second super cell score by the corner HP on 1185 (i think that was their number),

I saw a team attempt to put a SC in their robot one time but by the time they had gotten the robot to the corner and gotten the super cell in it, they were too far away and our of position to use it (The faced into the corner and the HP rolled it out under the station, and then a robot from the other alliance pinned it in that position. The bot then attempted to push the SC back into the HP's hands so they could shoot it into the pinning bot, but time ran out)

I think that it's probably better to just let the HP take the shots with the SC rather than wasting all that time trying to get the SC into the bot.

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1279 was consistent at Philly as well.

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904's robot scored a super cell in Traverse City, week 1.

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Team 1507 did it a few times af FLR. They drop it in their robot soon as the clock hits 20 and they quickly track down a nearby opposing robot and drop it right in. They got pretty good at it.

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As said, 217 would feed the supercell to their robot, and I wouldn't be surprised if simbotics starts taking on that stretegy too.

Although, when we were allianed with 111 and 1625, Raul from 111 (congrats on woodie flowers, by the way) wasn't focused on super cells at all. So I think some of the high score-ers aren't worried about super cells, or atleast untill Atlanta.

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During BMR qualifications, 111 changed thier strategy from midwest a bit. They focused much more on empty cells and super cells. It looked like they picked up an empty cell in auto mode and then they scored a couple of super cells with their robot. It was pretty fun to watch them score a super cell in the final seconds.

1741's robot scored two super cells in one match.

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Our team fixed our aimable shooter to shoot straight down for the boilermaker regional, then we were able to get 2 empty cells per match, then use our robot to pick up the supercell, one match we scored both, couple we scored one, and the rest we ran out of time or were blocked. We ended up #3 seed : )

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I saw quite a few teams do it at Peachtree. I know that we picked them up a lot by accident. By the time we realized usually it was to late, so I don't think we actually scored any of them.

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At BMR, both 111 and 1741 scored super cells either from missed payload specialist shots that hit the floor or from super cells tossed directly into the robot. Usually, this happened when multiple robots were in a cluster near a driver's station.

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At Kettering I noticed that 27 became very successful at scoring supercells. It wasn't until Lansing however that they adopted the super cell as a strategy. When we played with them, I noticed that their entire goal was to get as many empty cells into the hands of the human players as possible. At the 20 second mark they would take one or two super cells and feed them to their robot through the airlocks. Then they would attempt with their robot to score the super cells and all the while the PCs would have super cells at hand ready to throw.

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Team 27 has their robot score many of their super cells. It seems to be more effective then having a human throw it. Some dumpers have also been loaded up with them then they dump them.