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Re: Team Update 1-17-2014

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Originally Posted by apples000 View Post
This isn't great. Our team has made what we consider to be a pretty great ball pick up device. If the ball touches our front bumper, we "own it". Tonight, our best driver couldn't pick up the ball with a single robot (poorly driven by me) bulldozing the ball out of the way. At all. After 30 minutes of driving. The game will be won by a single team whose strategy involves no contact (of the ball) with the floor.

<slightly negative prediction>
We'll see the return of "if you don't hit our game piece, we won't hit yours" and the horrible tensions between teams it creates.
</slightly negative prediction>
Are you sure that you were not "herding" the ball rather than '"bulldozing"? If you were "herding" the ball, then you POSSESSED the ball.

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A. “bulldozing” (inadvertently coming in contact with BALLS that happen to be in the path of the ROBOT as it moves about the FIELD)
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“herding” (repeated pushing or bumping)
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