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Unread 16-01-2013, 10:24
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Re: Climbing Mechanism Ideas

If used, the enormity of the mechanism will force us to sacrifice a lot of our disc-shooter-goal scoring ability, which some of our team is strongly against.

When you start to CAD these designs one thing becomes apparent: either you focus on the climb, or you focus on the discs. Doing both well: nearly impossible.

Personally, I really like the 50 pt climb and dump strategy.

The advantage in my mind is that it allows you to score all of your points really fast and lets your team focus on perfecting a repeatable task.

If you're robot is only designed to climb and dump, you can spend the rest of the match playing defense. Essentially, you are forcing the other alliance to score 50+ pts under heavy D.... or.... beat you up the pyramid (which is unlikely if you have optimized your robot for this strategy).

If you focus on scoring discs. You need to be better at scoring discs than anyone else to win. There will be lots of bots scoring discs and you will need to outscore them. Very few will attempt the 50 pt strategy.[/quote]

My thoughts exactly. We have others on our team who do not like the idea though.
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