[RRLedford]

Consider the reality that only a limited number of successful trips between the dispenser and the scoring rack are possible in the 2+ minutes of driver control.

If a reasonable amount of rings are not scored, of what real value will the heavy rings be? Can you afford to wast one scoring cycle to place one or two 20% bonus heavy rings? We decided that only if two rings were adjacent on the dispenser pipe and could be taken together, would they be worth the time it takes to waste one cycle of scoring two rings at the rack.

The odds for a pair of heavy rings being randomly placed adjacently on the dispenser bars is fairly low based on my rough estimation. So, how many scoring rings can be dropped to the floor in order to get a pair of heavies together in order to justify the trip to the corner?

Our team concluded that unless we could first establish at least 30 pts. worth of row or column scoring bonus points, that going after heavy rings was a greater waste of our scoring possibility time, than what a heavy ring or two scored in the corner would yield.

However, having a partner can also score rings quickly and one bot that can sort out the heavy ones and put them back onto the free space of one dispenser bar, so so one bot can then take pairs of heavies over to the corner, this could prove to be a powerful scoring strategy.

-Dick Ledford