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Re: [FTC]:Finding weighted rings vs regular rings

To me the key to the game is cycle time—how quickly the robot can grab two rings, drive to the rack, hang the rings and return to the dispenser. Assuming both robots hang their rings during autonomous and a lift takes 30 seconds, that leaves 90 seconds to fill the remaining seven pegs on the rack. That’s four cycles, or round-trips, for the two robots. Finding weighted rings and hanging them adds cycles.

Your strategy then depends on how reliable your autonomous is, your cycle time, how quickly you can identify a weighted ring and your assumptions about your partner’s autonomous and cycle time. Remember, to avoid wasting time and the bottleneck at the dispenser, one of the robots will need to use the far dispenser.
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