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Re: Going for 3 robots on Ramp?

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Originally Posted by lineskier View Post
Personally I think a great strategy for a rookie team would be to design a very short light weight robot that others could drive on top of. During qualification rounds you could pick up a competitor and always get 2 coopertition points, and then in the elimination rounds it would make balancing 3 easier. I'd love to see a team win it all never shooting a basketball
2008 showed that it could obviously be done. 148 won the championship without ever picking up a trackball. They picked an easy strategy that many others overlooked and they did well in executing it.
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