[karomata]

I feel that if the magnetic wheel was more widely attempted and used (the one team that made it work to a degree of obvious general knowledge being 118), some teams would have found ways to make it much faster than the corner climbers that used hooks. Unfortunately, 118 found that it was more beneficial for them to shoot instead of climb to the 3rd level, so they never used their level 3 climber, and I believe they also took it off (don't quote me on that one). However, if the approach to climbing using a magnetic wheel was more used, I think it would have become the most popular method to be integrated into robots that wanted to level 3 climb mid competition season. But the again as we have all seen, there weren't even any level 3 climbs on Einstein, therefore climbing in any degree was proven to not be the best strategy for Ultimate Ascent. The highest climb there was on Einstein was 148's level 2 climb, which the additional 20 points, while greatly helping their score, was not too great in its value because of the extreme scoring abilities of some of the other robots on Einstein. I really would have liked to see the climbing point values upgraded/modified so that climbing to level 3 was worth doing. I find it rather depressing that the hardest challenge FIRST has ever presented was heavily under valued, to the point where in most divisional elimination matches, climbing was rather scarce.