View Single Post
  #6   Spotlight this post!  
Unread 24-01-2013, 10:14
ctccromer's Avatar
ctccromer ctccromer is offline
Animus
AKA: Tucker Campbell
FRC #3753 (Bulah Bots)
Team Role: Alumni
 
Join Date: Jan 2012
Rookie Year: 2012
Location: Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Posts: 190
ctccromer is a name known to allctccromer is a name known to allctccromer is a name known to allctccromer is a name known to allctccromer is a name known to allctccromer is a name known to all
Re: pre-game positioning: MIDDLE of the pyramid?

Awesome, glad to know this is legal

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrew Lawrence View Post
I also fail to see what this would achieve. If you were to start behind the alliance line with 3 frisbees, you wouldn't be getting in your partner's way (assuming they start in front of the pyramid), and an antenna wouldn't assist you in any way, as it would just move your robot farther back from the tower and closer to the center line.
We're not assuming a partner starts in front of the pyramid, but exactly the opposite. We're planning for the best-case scenario: both of our teammates are total monsters and we don't want to get in their way. And in any other case, lets just say the other extreme (that WE'LL carry the team), we still won't be in anyone elses way.
Not to mention that it'd be very easy to plan autonomous from either back corner OR the middle, giving us three different starting positions, all of which give us the 3rd frisbee