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Re: Secret Sauce: Shot to Human Player

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Originally Posted by HannahWilson View Post
Congrats to team 900 on winning the Raleigh regional! I really enjoyed watching your robot launch the ball so powerfully, and your team's strategy was amazing.

I have one question: when did your team have the idea of passing the ball over the truss to the human player? Did you plan to build your robot to shoot the ball that powerfully during the build season, or did you realize that strategy would work well during the competition? (I'm assuming the former.)
Hi Hannah,

We planned from the beginning to build our robot the way we did. After kickoff we did a couple of things. The first is that we read over the rules thoroughly to ensure we fully understood them. In addition, we also looked at statistical analysis of the game. From there, we began to think through possible strategies and the scores for them based on that analysis. (This lead to a 4D graph and some other stuff that I won't bore you with.)

I am proud to say that our strategy is based on that analysis and that it was arrived at on the day after kickoff. From there, it was a matter of designing a robot to accomplish the goals we set out to accomplish for our strategy.

Thank you for the compliments.