Thread: Predictions Week 5: Ascending the Ranks
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Re: Predictions Week 5: Ascending the Ranks
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Originally Posted by Looking Forward View Post
  • Is there any better example of how well the Robot in 3 Days design can work than 4343? Max Tech's simple and reliable scoring machine captained the #2 alliance to the finals at GTR-East, and they should be one of the more consistent scoring machines at the other Toronto event this weekend. They may have to convert some of the twos they scored from the sides of the pyramid into more frequent threes if they want to reach the finals again, though.
  • While there's a crop of rookies gearing up for their first ever FRC event at GTR-West, almost every veteran team has competed at least once in 2013 already. Many of them quite successfully. Experience and practice make a huge difference in teams' performances, and GTR-West is going to be a dandy because of it.
  • Is there a combination more suited to play together than 1114 and 2056? The two robots compliments each other almost perfectly, and have absolutely dominated as a result. Given the diminishing returns of having multiple floor loading robots on an alliance (especially when teams aren't missing many shots or one already has a 7-disc autonomous), Simbotics' swift hanging mechanism looks like a brilliant choice at this point. Just like last year, it's likely going to take another team seeding at the top and separating them in order to bring one of them down. 1334, 1310, 1241, and 4343 seem like the best candidates to do that. Outside chances that 1503 and 772 could sneak in there as well, but they'd need very favorable schedules.
I certainly agree about the Ri3D comment. Weirdest part is, while Ri3D was certainly in the back of our minds when building Max 2.0, we didn't intentionally design a nearly identical robot.

As for converting those 2's to 3's. We're working on it. Also improved our hopper so we won't lose that top disk on about half of our traversals of the field. Should be good for 8-10 points/match improvement, I figure.

I agree it will take another team seeding #1 to take down the duo. I honestly think that of the 6 mentioned, 1310 is the most likely to be able to pull it off, and EVEN THEY would require a rather favourable schedule. I could see 4343 doing it also, but it would nearly require that any matches against one of the duo being paired with the other. 4343 had a relatively easy schedule at GTREast, being paired up with 1114 and 2056 each once, and only against 1114 once, never against 2056.

The real question is: If someone out-seeds 1114 and 2056, which one do you pick? 2056 for the 7disc auto, or 1114 for the 50pt climb+dump?
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