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Unread 08-01-2012, 21:08
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Re: How many of you are actually being a feeder bot?

Well, like you said, lots of teams will go for feeders as they probably won't be very accurate. Thus, going completely feeder in my opinion isn't the best plan. This would almost be the same as going completely defensive last year. Where all bots could do it, but some where designed for just defense.

Feeders will be VERY useful this year though due to the issue of human players not throwing during the entire match and only during the end. Thus, we do need feeders but going 100% feeder still may not be the best idea.

UNLESS, you came up with a design to just sit in front of the drop and the human player could just drop balls in constantly and you throw them over with a launcher of sorts. This would be very useful and give the rest of the alliance valuable scoring time.

So, in my final opinion, I believe if you do a feeder correctly it is definitely worth doing 100%. Teams will pick you in finals do to your convenience and time saving. Though, if you do it wrong and it takes too much time for you to get set and can't launch the balls to where the are needed, you probably won't be chosen for finals.
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