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Re: How to pick up a frisbee

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Originally Posted by smclean1969 View Post
I'm very confident the elite teams will be picking up the disks with ease.
I think that this is a thinking trap that we all fall into.

The elite teams do everything well; that's why they are elite teams. The question for the rest of us is whether adding a certain feature to our robot will be a good investment or not.

If the pickup allows you to acquire disks faster than a trip to the feeder station and it doesn't take too much away from other robot functions (size wise, resource wise, etc.) then it could be a plus.

In short, a good floor pickup that doesn't detract from other functionality would be a great thing. I personally don't see it as a must have in this years game.

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