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Re: 2012 IRI Predictions

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Originally Posted by akoscielski3 View Post
I doubt that getting the Co-op bridge in hybrid will be as big as in other competitons. Since only 2 balls will most likely be on the bridge at once (most robots will have their balls in the robot).

Either way Hybrid will be not as big of a part of the game as in other competitions.
Guess 5 ball autonomous modes are a thing of the past now. Darn. Oh well.

Anyways, I'd say that the 2 wide, 1 long sounds like a pretty good pairing, though with 1717 running swerve and 469 being a square, it's hard to classify them when they win...

As said before, with a 4 bot alliance, they'll be able to triple, but only if it is to their advantage to do so. As one of our mentors said, rather optimistically,
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Balancing won't matter if we score 300 balls a match.
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