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Re: Drivetrain Only Strategies???

The super-simple bot:
1) Be able to quickly and reliably lower the bridge
2) Be able to cross the bump
3) Have an intake roller on the front of your robot
4) Let the intake push balls upwards onto a ramped box
5) When you run the intake backwards, the balls will roll out
6) Leave the top of the ramped box open so that human players can feed it
7) Make the drive as powerful as possible
8) Make the footprint as small as possible
9) Make the robot as heavy as possible

In a match:
1) At the beginning of each match, cross the bump
2) Keep opposing robots away from their key with ramming defense
3) When opposing robots miss their shots, grab the rebounds
4) When they score, go over to your inbounder station to receive balls
5) Ferry balls back to your own side of the field and give them to partners
6) Rinse, repeat
7) At the end of the match, lower the bridge and get on

Before alliance selection, sell yourself as a second pick. The above robot, with a practiced driver and the ability to cooperate with other teams, will almost certainly make it to eliminations and might even get snapped up near the bottom of the first round of selections. If you can't build the intake roller, at least build the ramped box with some sort of release and you'll only go a little later. If you can't lower the bridge or build the intake, at least build a powerful pushing drive and you might make it as a very late pick--this could actually give you a better chance at winning the tournament due to the serpentine draft.

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