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Unread 13-03-2013, 03:08
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Re: are there a lot of 50pt dumpers/climbers?

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Originally Posted by chadr03 View Post
My team consistently climbed for 30, but did not have a dumping mechanism. We went 7-3 and seeded 13 of 57. We lost one match by 10 and another by 7. If we would have had the additional 20 points we would have went 9-1 and probably ranked 2nd. The extra 20 would have been huge. As people tune in their shooters and scores start rising it might not get that big of a jump but still pretty significant.
Alternatively, a climb and dumper with autonomous and some scoring may be valuable on high scoring alliances if the other two robots can get all the feeder station discs. For example, teams like 1114, 1986, etc. already can make 5 rounds consistently, which is 20 of the discs. If the climb and dumper can get just 2 rounds, and the other robots can get 5 each, that's all the feeder station discs.
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