[waialua359]

Originally Posted by ThirteenOfTwo

We are in concurrence on all points, except that I think that travel time to cross the field, even if your robot can instantly cross the bump, is always going to be slower than an ally passing the ball across the field, that I think that bounce passing is viable, and that I think that when a robot breaks down on your bridge and prevents you from balancing it you have lost.

Given all of the arguing we were doing, that's relatively few points of contention. Besides, even though I don't agree with your logic all of the way through, I agree that a team with resources (like yours) is perfectly correct and justified in designing to cross the bump.

Good luck in the FRC season, and may your robot always drive straight!

I dont believe you need to be a team with resources to cross the bump.
There are many possible designs that teams can come up with to do so, and still be able to design a bot that score baskets.
Being that your team has come up with decent bots in the past, I'm sure you folks will come up with something to do so.
Despite simulations and trying to determine to what extent its important, one fact remains true......being able to effectively cross the bump is better than not being able to at all.