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Originally Posted by NXTGeek
I would think a drive base would be worth the extra 20pts for dumping and the slightly more adaptive strategy (hybrid climb/defense)...
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Our team is really small. We have at the most 15 people. Most of the those people do not come every day and work for all the time so we had to decide to do one thing. My team chose to climb. We ended up spending close to half of our build season building a pyramid corner so that we could corner climb. With a week left we decided to scrap the idea and build a 20 point side climber. Those pictures are of our first legal climb to 20.
I know what you are talking about. In my team I was a huge advocate for not doing a climber because I thought a climber (without a drive train) was an all or nothing approach. I was really surprised and happy that this year in competition we were the 8th seed alliance captain which is the best we have ever done.
There are good things about having a really small team. This year is my freshman year. My team also does FTC where I was one of the hardest working people. Because of that I was able to be the sole operator of our robot. It for me was a great experience.