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Re: [MCC] Minimum Comptetivie Concept 2011

Drive + minibot! The real question is what the minimum competitive minibot and deployment look like.

Aside from that, one of the things I thought about last year was how a defensive minibot robot with no tube handling ability could score an ubertube in a very simple way. I think you could do it by mounting this type of a pole on your robot:

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You preload the ubertube on top. In autonomous, you drive forward and then stop abruptly, causing the tube to fall off the slanted front of the pole and onto the scoring pole. Only the bottom row is accessible without extending past the 60" initial height limit. It's only 2 points, but it's an inexpensive 2 points. If that could telescope up to the top row in a simple way, it starts to look pretty good. Minibot + ubertube + defense is a really attractive pick for an alliance captain.