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Re: Strategies for Rebound Rumble

I love the idea of coopertition but honestly I believe the best way to score points is 3 robots on the alliance bridge. Obviously during qualifying it would be very hard to do but once in elimination you have an established alliance. You can then focus on finding the correct way to balance all 3 bots and score 40 points. That could easily turn the tides of any match. Especially when this year's game is so reliant on an accurate shooter for high scoring matches. One thing that Im going to bring up with team 1678 is to make a computer program which you just input the weight and some other values into it and it outputs a configuration for all 3 bots.

Another strategy I have thought of is to have a bot sit right at the inbound station and pretty much have the inbounder hand load the bot which then fires the balls across the court and to the other alliance members. This would help keep from ball starvation and allow the inbounder to be more effective.