As the team with the full court shooter about which this discussion started, 4212, I wanted to post my thoughts on how things played out at Wisconsin.
We're a second year team still learning how everything works. I read the competition manual and updates religiously during the Build Season and did not see the last-minute-pool-noodle extension coming. Because we shoot at a height of about 54 inches and saw that most bots were re-makes of the much shorter Robot in 3 Days prototype, I assumed our biggest obstacle would be making it to the feeder station and lining up. I thought through the possibility of an opponents' climber mechanism reaching above 60 inches to block our shots but also thought that wouldn't be a smart usage of time unless the mechanism couldn't produce a viable climb for the bot.
But, after watching matches in Weeks 1 and 2, I knew our full court shooter would be toast at some point but was just hoping to get as far as we could before that happened. We were ecstatic to make it to semi finals and somewhat proud of the fact that we sparked fear in the hearts of our opponents
