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Re: Shooter designs from the 2008 Overdrive season

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Originally Posted by waialua359 View Post
We actually looked at doing a 2008 SS clone of some sort.
After some intense discussions, we feel that robots like 16's and what we've seen with 3 day robots are more suited for this year's game.
If we are just shooting over a truss, then absolutely. But passing, making high/low goal shots, catching, etc. makes it a lot tougher.

This year especially, I highly doubt we will see a dominating robot like SS was during 2008. I hope I'm proven wrong..
We started doing some "resizing" of 1114's 2008 bot and found that the the new aspects that you pointed out make their design quite difficult to apply to this game. It will be interesting to see if anyone can cram that design into a package that can accomplish all the game aspects. I hope to see it.

As for the dominance of Simbot SS, that is a robot with a dominance that will be VERY hard to ever duplicate.
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Teams I've been on:
Team 45 - The TechnoKats - Student/Leader/Driver 2004-2007
Team 1646 - Boiler Precision Guessworks - Mentor 2007-2011
Team 3301 - Jay County Robotics - Teacher 2011-Present

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