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Re: Climbing and dumping not winning?

So I may be a bit biased on this one. My kids decided to build a climbing dumper. I'm still not sure they are going to pull it off because this was one heck of a challange, but with luck and hard work I think they will make it.

The thing is...I wonder if a climber/dumper takes away from the scoring capability of the other two bots on its aliance. So for example if you have a full court shooter, and a floor loading cleanup bot would having a 50 point climber/dumper be an acceptable trade off to a third shooter/defence bot? So would it be better to have gone with a defence bot than a climber/shooter? In which case it depends on what you are up against and what you are alied with.

Unfortunately I don't think a 50 point robot is a guarantee of anything. In fact it may prove to be too much of a liability to be desirable.

One thing that might change this is the fact that the scoring system might change at the finals. Not sure which way that would go, but if relatively few climbers make it to the finals then maybe it would break in favor of climber/dumpers...

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