Thread: Lessons learned for Week 2 Regionals?
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Unread 06-03-2011, 12:57
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Re: Lessons learned for Week 2 Regionals?
Have a STABLE robot arm- at traverse city, I saw a lot of teams that had a robot tall enough to place on the top rack, but whose arms would flex and bend up to 8 inches back and forth, making it much harder for them to place. A lower center of gravity and a light manipulator with a rigid arm helped enormously.

Also, a team that can score 6 tubes on the middle rack will beat out one who only scores 4 on the top rack, even though the top is considered to be a necessity for many teams.

And, of course, a fast and reliable minibot will get you at least to the top 8 seeds. I think that a t traverse city, 6 or 7 of the top eight teams had a minibot deploy at least every other match.