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Originally Posted by E Dawg
True, but you might as well design for the top goal anyways. That way you can block the bottom ones as well if you need to.
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You're assuming top goal defense is as easy as defense was last year. You need to design a mechanism that's going to extend 3'-4' out the top of your robot, linearly, not swinging around a pivot, that can withstand (presumably) multiple exercise balls hitting it at speed. Or you can spend you time designing a floor pickup, launcher, dump, etc. I think top goal defense is going to be too unimportant to top-rank offense/defense robots, and too challenging for most lower-ranked defense-only teams. I think I'd really rather that lower rank teams focus on a ball manipulation system than a defense system that's going to be useless 95% of the time.