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Originally Posted by moogboy
I'm seeing some wishes for defensive/thirty point climb robots. I considered this as well, but truthfully, I'm not sure that's the best thing. Wouldn't it make sense for a defender to defend for as much of the match as possible? Especially against teams that shoot basically continuously.
In a related note to all of this, the fastest thirty point climb I've yet seen is 45 seconds. Can anyone beat that with any robot? A defensive robot that can make it to level three in less than thirty seconds is a force to be reckoned with in my estimation.
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I wasn't commenting as a 'wish' really, it was more of a typical observation from what's been shown and talked about up to this point. Most climbers that have been pictured or discussed have been designed with that exclusively in mind meaning that prior to climbing their most typical role would be in a defensive nature. I agree that ideally your best defensive bot would be a very fast 10 point climb while being able to defend both scoring or possibly pyramid positioning for the majority of the match and a 30 point climber would be a good scorer prior to climbing. I was just speaking in terms of the perceived generality...which is absolutely meaningless at this point because we haven't seen enough robots yet to know what will be more the norm.
And our robot's 30 point climb has been clocked in the 25-30 second range.
