Thank you for raising this topic Ian.
(And also thank you for the twentyfour blog - we started one of our strategy discussions this year with the question
"What would Plowie do?". This is going to be Plowie's year!)
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Originally Posted by Ian Curtis
Having watched many FRC matches, if I had a penny for every second I've seen a robot try to acquire a game piece and come up empty, I would be a rich man.
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This is a game of possession and ball control followed by defense, so it's a bit disappointing yet unsurprising to see it apparently* perceived as a game of sitting unmolested in your scoring zone lobbing exercise balls 8 feet into the air.
Accusations of "ballhogging" is a legitimate concern. But the problems may start even earlier when teams go to pre-load balls into robots which didn't move in their previous match. Unfortunately I expect some animated exchanges in the queuing line this year.
* Statement based on subjective observation of CD activity