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Originally Posted by cmrnpizzo14
Why weren't there more teams like this? No offense to 4451, they are a great team. However, if a rookie can build a robot that can deliver consistently enough to do this, why didn't more teams? Someone please correct me if there were but I don't remember any other bots off the top of my head that did that.
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I think these teams got lost in the giant group of teams who attempted to 30 point climb, had the mechanisms but didn't use them due to weight, complexity with a system as a whole, or abandoned them at the last second.
Our team was close to falling into this catagory when our original shooter/climber combo didn't integrate by 1/2in. at our first regional. We went with the climber for the rest of the event because our shooter game wasn't that great and improved it for Pine Tree (along with cutting our climb time drastically by 65%) to become an auto, 3-4 cycles, climbing robot. I know of a lot of other teams we encoutered this season who either had a 30 point climber on their robot or the space was clearly allocated but never used. Other planned on making or integrating their climbers later on in the season but the effort wasn't worth it if you could pull of 1-2 cycles in the final 20-30 seconds of a match.