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Originally Posted by BASE
Wouldn't a mediocre support just be a mediocre shooter, without the ability to shoot? So is this design plan really the obvious choice? Or is it maybe a choice that only rookie teams should consider?
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No, a poor shooter usually also makes a poor support bot because the team that built it focused on shooting instead of being a good partner for a better shooter.
Having attended 6 regionals and the championship I would say that a bot that was singly good at manipulating and balancing on the bridge and in short orientation would have been a winning robot. Those simple bonus point would have won the majority of qualification matches I saw. Also the ability to coop would have helped them rank even higher. Add in the ability to simply collect and feed balls and you have a huge advantage over 90% of the teams that competed this year.
I would have killed to have one of those to pick as the number one seed at Boiler and the number 2 seed at Queen City.